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3 letters words from 'mas'

MAS 5SAM 5
SMA 5 

2 letters words from 'mas'

AM 4AS 2
MA 4 

All 3 letters words made out of mas

mas ams msa sma asm sam

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word mas. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in mas.

Definitions and meaning of mas

mas

Translingual

Etymology

From m- +‎ as.

Symbol

mas

  1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

  1. A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 520:

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, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, MSA, S. Am., SAM, SMA, Sam, Sam., sam, sma

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 (first-person singular past tense mata, participle matur)

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

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mas, from Latin mansum.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmas/

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalonia.

Derived terms

  • masia

Further reading

  • “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mas

  1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Noun

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

  1. bother, trouble

Verb

mas

  1. imperative of mase

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑ/, /mɑs/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

  1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in southern France)

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”).

Noun

mas

  1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”)

Noun

mas

  1. mass

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 mas (ꦩꦱ꧀, “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 (Java, gender-neutral)
  • panjenengan (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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

  1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Latin

Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”) [whence Sanskrit मर्य (marya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax), and Old Armenian մարի (mari)], but this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /maːs/, [mäːs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mas/, [mäs]

Noun

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

  1. man, male (in the sense of male human being)

Usage notes

The sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, the sense of “male human being” by mās, and the sense of “adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Synonyms

  • (man): vir

Antonyms

  • (man): mulier

Coordinate terms

  • fēmina

Derived terms

  • marītus
  • masculīnus
  • masculus
  • sēmimās

Descendants

  • Aromanian: mari
  • Romanian: mare

Adjective

mās (genitive maris); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. male, masculine, manly

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Related terms

  • marītō
  • masculīnus

References

  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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

From Anglo-Norman masse.

Noun

mas

  1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

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

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

Pronunciation

Noun

mas m (plural mases)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house

Papiamentu

Adverb

mas

  1. most

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Noun

mas f

  1. genitive plural of masa

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Brazil) /ma(j)s/
  • IPA(key): (Portugal) /mɐʃ/
  • Homophones: más (Brazil), 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

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 (plural mas)

  2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

Derived terms

  • deixar de mas
  • sem mas nem meio mas

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali মাছ (mach).

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[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

mas m

  1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmas/, [ˈmas]
  • 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

Further reading

  • “mas” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

mas c

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

Declension

Synonyms

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

References

  • mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • -sam, sam, sam-

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Particle

mas

  1. comparative marker of inequality

Tausug

Etymology

Akin to Cebuano maas.

Adjective

mās

  1. old (of persons)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English must.

Verb

mas

  1. must

mas

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

  • mas draw (“extremely”)
  • mas o'r glas (“out of the blue”)
  • mas tu fas (“right outside”)
  • maswr (“outside-half”)
  • tu fas (“outside”)
  • tu fewn tu fas (“inside out”)

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org
  • a house or home in the south of France.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)