mason

See also: Mason, máson, masón, and Masoń

English

Etymology

From Middle English masoun, machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, Old French maçon, from Late Latin maciō (“carpenter, bricklayer”), from Frankish *makjō (“maker, builder”), a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *metn-, *met- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪsən/
• Rhymes: -eɪsən

Noun

mason (plural masons)

1. A bricklayer, one whose occupation is to build with stone or brick
2. One who prepares stone for building purposes.
3. A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.

Derived terms

Terms derived from mason

• mason bee
• masondom
• masonhood
• mason moth
• mason shell
• mason wasp
• mason worm
• masonry
• monumental mason
• sand mason worm

Translations

one who builds with stone or brick

• Afrikaans: messelaar
• Albanian: murator (sq) m
• Arabic: بَنَّاء (ar) m (bannāʔ)
• Armenian: քարտաշ (hy) (kʻartaš)
• Assamese: মিস্ত্ৰী (mistri)
• Azerbaijani: bənna (az)
• Basque: igeltsero (eu)
• Belarusian: му́ляр m (múljar)
• Bengali: মিস্ত্রী (mistri)
• Bube: mísinna
• Bulgarian: зидар (bg) m (zidar)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石匠 (zh) (shíjiàng), 石工 (zh) (shígōng)

• Czech: zedník (cs) m
• Dutch: metselaar (nl) m, (Flemish) metser (nl) m
• Esperanto: masonisto
• Finnish: muurari (fi)
• French: maçon (fr) m, maçonne (fr) f
• German: Maurer (de) m
• Greek: κτίστης (el) m (ktístis), λιθοδόμος (el) m (lithodómos)
• Hausa: mēsìn m
• Hebrew: בנאי (he) m (banai)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kőműves (hu)
• Icelandic: múrari (is) m
• Ingrian: kamenšikka
• Irish: saor m
• Italian: muratore (it) m
• Japanese: 石工 (ja) (いしく, ishiku)
• Khmer: ជាងកំបោ (ciəngkɑmbao)
• Korean: 석공(石工) (ko) (seokgong)
• Latin: caementarius m
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Lombard: magut (lmo) (Western), murador (Eastern)
• Macedonian: ѕидар m (dzidar)
• Mauritian Creole: mason
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: maçon (oc) m, peirièr m
• Ottoman Turkish: دیوارجی (duvarcı)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polabian: maurnĕk m
• Polish: kamieniarz (pl) m, murarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedreiro (pt) m
• Romanian: zidar (ro) m, pietrar (ro) m, mason (ro) m (rare)
• Russian: ка́менщик (ru) m (kámenščik), масо́н (ru) m (masón) (rare in this sense)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зѝда̄р m

  Roman: zìdār (sh) m

• Slovak: murár (sk) m
• Spanish: albañil (es) m
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: taş ustası, duvarcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: му́ляр (uk) m (múljar)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: muràro
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: mitselder c

Freemason — see Freemason

Verb

mason (third-person singular simple present masons, present participle masoning, simple past and past participle masoned)

1. (transitive, normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

   to mason up a well or terrace

   to mason in a kettle or boiler

Translations

to build stonework or brickwork

• Finnish: muurata (fi)
• Polish: murować (pl) impf, zamurować pf, wymurować pf
• Romanian: zidi (ro), dura (ro), clădi (ro)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: murjowaś impf, namurjowaś pf, wumurjowaś pf

• Swedish: mura (sv)

Anagrams

• monas, Osman, moans, maons, NOMAS, Manso, soman, manos

Esperanto

Noun

mason

1. accusative singular of maso

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French maçon.

Noun

mason

1. mason, bricklayer

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French maçon, from Middle French maçon (“mason”), from Old French maçon, masson, machun (“brick-layer”), from Late Latin maciō, machiō (“carpenter, brick-layer”), from a derivative of Frankish *makōn (“to build, make, work”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *mati (“cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *matją, *mattjuk (“ploughshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.sɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asɔn
• Syllabification: ma‧son

Noun

mason m pers (female equivalent masonka)

1. mason, Freemason

   Synonym: wolnomularz

Declension

Declension of mason

	singular	plural
nominative	mason	masoni/masony (deprecative)
genitive	masona	masonów
dative	masonowi	masonom
accusative	masona	masonów
instrumental	masonem	masonami
locative	masonie	masonach
vocative	masonie	masoni

Further reading

• mason in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mason in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French maçon.

Noun

mason m (plural masoni)

1. freemason

Declension

Declension of mason

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mason	masonul	(niște) masoni	masonii
genitive/dative	(unui) mason	masonului	(unor) masoni	masonilor
vocative	masonule		masonilor

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

Unknown

Noun

mason

1. fruit of the Ziziphus jujuba (syn. Ziziphus vulgaris)

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français