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3-letter words (3 found)

MAS,SAM,SMA,

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Definitions and meaning of mas

mas

Translingual

Etymology

  • (metrology): From m- +‎ as.

Symbol

mas

  1. (metrology) milliarcsecond
  2. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maasai.

English

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

  1. A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.

Etymology 2

Noun

mas

  1. plural of ma

Etymology 3

Noun

mas (plural mas)

  1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.

Anagrams

  • 'ams, MSA, Sam., ASM, AMS, sam, sma, SMA, Sam, S. Am., A.M.s, SAM, asm

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Noun

mas (plural maste)

  1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

Derived terms

  • hoofmas

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • mat

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mas]

Verb

mas (aorist mata, participle matur)

  1. to measure
  2. to estimate, assess
  3. to consider
Derived terms
  • matem
  • matje
  • matshëm
Related terms
  • mot

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ̊ (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek πός (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic по (po, “behind, after”)).

Preposition

mas (+ ablative)

  1. behind, after, beyond
  2. at
  3. over
  4. against

Adverb

mas

  1. behind, after
  2. hence

Derived terms

  • masi (Gheg)
  • masanej (Gheg)

Related terms

  • pas
  • mbasi
  • përmasë
  • mbas

References

Asturian

Noun

mas f pl

  1. plural of ma

Conjunction

mas

  1. but
    Synonym: pero
  2. only, other than, no more than (used with negative)

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]

Particle

mas (Basahan spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

  1. comparative marker of inequality
    Synonym: urog

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmas]

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

Derived terms

  • Masdenverge
  • Masdevall
  • masia

Related terms

  • masover

References

  • “mas”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “mas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “mas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmas]
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Homophone: maz

Noun

mas

  1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Etymology 1

A back-formation of mase (“to slog”).

Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

  1. bother, trouble

Declension

Etymology 2

A back-formation of mase (“to jostle, squeeze”).

Noun

mas (indeclinable)

  1. jostling (the act of pushing oneself towards and past an obstacle, e.g. one or more people)
    Synonym: masen

References

  • “mas” in Den Danske Ordbog

Verb

mas

  1. imperative of mase

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

  • màs (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of més (“more”).

Conjunction

mas (ORB, broad)

  1. but

References

  • mais in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • mas in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/, /mas/ ~ /mɑs/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

  1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

Further reading

  • “mas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”).

Noun

mas

  1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”).

Noun

mas

  1. mass

Iban

Etymology

From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Noun

mas

  1. gold (element)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːs/
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

  1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mas]

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦩꦱ꧀ (mas, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, mās, ĕmas, hĕmas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronoun

mas

  1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

  • mas (used for males)
  • mbak (used for females)
  • kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
  • Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
  • saudari (used for women of equal status)
  • bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
  • ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
  • sampeyan (Central & East Java, gender-neutral)
  • panjenengan (Central Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

Noun

mas

  1. alternative form of emas (“gold”)
Derived terms
  • mas kawin

Further reading

  • “mas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

  1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of ma.

Pronunciation

Adverb

mas (Hebrew spelling מאס)

  1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)
    Antonym: menos
  2. (with definite article) most; -est (used to make superlatives)
    Antonym: menos

References

Latin

Etymology

    Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), whence Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“young man”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young girl”), and Old Armenian մարի (mari, “female bird, hen”). But this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

    It has been connected with masturbor and with mālus#Etymology_3_2 (“pole”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmaːs]
    • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmas]

    Noun

    mās m (genitive maris); third declension

    1. male
    2. man
      Synonym: vir

    Usage notes

    Mās means male, in contrast to fēmina (“female”); thus, it means man (in contrast to woman) when used in reference to an adult human, but it can also be used to refer to male animals, deities, or even plants. "Man" in the sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, and in the sense of “(free) adult male human being” by Latin vir.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    Coordinate terms

    • fēmina (“female”)

    Derived terms

    Adjective

    mās (neuter mare); third-declension two-termination adjective

    1. male, masculine, manly
      Synonyms: masculus, masculīnus, virīlis

    Declension

    Third-declension two-termination adjective.

    References

    Further reading

    • “mas” in volume 8, column 421, line 74 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
    • “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

    Macanese

    Alternative forms

    • maz, mâz

    Etymology

    From Portuguese mas.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mɐʃ/, /mɐs/

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. but

    Usage notes

    • Not to be confused with más.

    Malay

    Alternative forms

    • emas
    • امس
    • مس

    Etymology

    Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [mas]
    • Rhymes: -mas, -as

    Noun

    mas (Jawi spelling امس)

    1. alternative form of emas

    Middle English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    mas

    1. alternative form of masse (“mass”)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    mas

    1. alternative form of messe (“mass”)

    Northern Sami

    Pronoun

    mas

    1. locative singular of mii

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Verb

    mas

    1. imperative of mase

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Verb

    mas

    1. imperative of masa

    Noun

    mas n (definite singular maset, uncountable)

    1. nagging (constant complaint)
      Synonym: kjas

    Occitan

    Etymology 1

    Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mas m (plural mases)

    1. farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan-speaking and Catalan-speaking territories.

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from Latin magis. Cognate with Spanish mas

    Pronunciation

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. but

    Old Galician-Portuguese

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of mais.

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. but; yet

    Descendants

    • Portuguese: mas

    References

    • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

    Old Spanish

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin magis.

    Adverb

    mas

    1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. but; yet
      Synonym: pero

    Descendants

    • Ladino: ma, mas, מאס, מה
    • Spanish: mas, más

    References

    • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mas”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 329

    Papiamentu

    Adverb

    mas

    1. most

    Polish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmas/
    • Rhymes: -as
    • Syllabification: mas

    Noun

    mas f

    1. genitive plural of masa

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    From Old Galician-Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Doublet of mais.

    Pronunciation

    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /mæʃ/, /mæs/
    • Homophone: mais (Brazil, with intrusive /j/)
    • Hyphenation: mas

    Conjunction

    mas

    2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)
      Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto
    4. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)
    6. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)
    8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

    Quotations

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

    Derived terms

    • mas é
    • mas sim
    • mas também

    Descendants

    • Macanese: mas

    Adverb

    mas (not comparable)

    2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how
      Synonyms: e como, e

    Quotations

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

    Noun

    mas m (invariable)

    2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

    Derived terms

    • deixar de mas
    • sem mas nem meio mas

    Rohingya

    Etymology

    From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀰𑁆𑀘 (maśca).

    Noun

    mas

    1. fish

    Romani

    Etymology

    Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀲 (maṃsa), from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mēms-ó-m, from *mḗms.

    Noun

    mas m (plural masa)

    1. meat

    References

    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574
    • Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎[4], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin mansum, from mansus.

    Noun

    mas n (plural masuri)

    1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

    Declension

    Related terms

    • mânea

    Verb

    mas

    1. past participle of mânea

    Scottish Gaelic

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. if is

    Usage notes

    • This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).
      mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

    Somali

    Etymology

    Contracted from earlier *hamas, from Proto-East Cushitic *hamas- ("snake"). Cognate with Burji hamasi, Hadiyya hamashichcho, and Sidamo hamaso.

    Noun

    mas m (plural masas)

    1. snake

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of más.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mas/ [mas]
    • Rhymes: -as
    • Syllabification: mas
    • Homophone: más

    Conjunction

    mas

    1. (formal) but
      Synonym: pero
    2. (formal) however
      Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

    Adverb

    mas

    1. misspelling of más
    2. obsolete spelling of más

    Noun

    mas f pl

    1. plural of ma

    Further reading

    • “mas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

    Swedish

    Noun

    mas c

    1. Dalecarlian; a man or boy from the province of Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
    2. (colloquial) tax collector

    Declension

    Synonyms

    man from Dalecarlia
    • dalmas
    • dalkarl
    tax collector
    • skatteindrivare
    • skattmas

    See also

    • dalkulla (“female Dalecarlian”)

    References

    • mas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
    • mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
    • mas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

    Anagrams

    • -sam, sam, sam-

    Tagalog

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Spanish más, from Latin magis.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
    • Rhymes: -as
    • Syllabification: mas

    Particle

    mas (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

    1. comparative marker of inequality; -er

    Anagrams

    • sam-

    Tok Pisin

    Etymology

    From English must.

    Verb

    mas

    1. must

    Tsuut'ina

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mas/

    Noun

    más

    1. knife

    References

    • "Tsuut'ina Nominalized Phrases (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6EdGunXLc

    Welsh

    Alternative forms

    • ma's

    Etymology

    From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /aː/ in South Wales. For the same semantic development compare Irish amuigh (“out”) < Old Irish i mmaig (literally “in (a) field”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /maːs/
    • Rhymes: -aːs

    Adverb

    mas

    1. (South Wales, colloquial) out
      Synonym: allan

    Derived terms

    Mutation

    Woleaian

    Verb

    mas

    1. to die

    Source: wiktionary.org