amaso

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See also: amasó

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French amas, Italian ammasso.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
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Rhymes: -aso
Hyphenation: a‧ma‧so

Noun

amaso (accusative singular amason, plural amasoj, accusative plural amasojn)

mass (large quantity)
Li facile rekoneblas pro sia amaso da rufaj haroj. ― He’s easy to be recognized because of his mass of red hair.

Ĉiutage nin bombardas amaso da informoj. ― Every day we are bombarded with a mass of information.
heap, pile, stack
Amasoj da libroj kovris ŝian skribtablon. ― Piles of books covered her desk.

La aŭto fiksiĝis en amaso da neĝo. ― The car got stuck in a pile of snow.
crowd (of people), flock, herd (of animals)
Li vane penis eliri el la amaso. ― He tried in vain to get out of the crowd.

Sur la montetoj vidiĝis amasoj da paŝtiĝantaj ŝafoj. ― On the hills, flocks of sheep could be seen grazing.

Derived terms

amasa (“mass”, adjective)
amasarestado (“mass arrest”)
amasbuĉi (“to massacre”)
amasdetrua armilo (“weapon of mass destruction”)
amase (“en masse”)
amasfabriki (“to mass produce”)
amasigi (“to amass”)
amasiĝi (“to gather (intrans.); to pile up”)
amasinformilo (“mass medium”)
amaskomunikilo (“mass medium”)
amasloĝejo (“dormitory; barracks”)
amasmemoro (“mass storage”)
amasmurdo (“mass murder”)
amasprodukti (“to mass produce”)
amasprotesto (“mass protest, demonstration”)
amastombejo (“mass grave”)
fojnamaso (“haystack”)
homamaso (“crowd”)
neĝamaso (“snowdrift”)
popolamaso (“populace, masses”)
stelamaso (“globular cluster”)
teramaso (“mound”)

Galician

Verb

amaso

first-person singular present indicative of amasar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto amaso, English mass, French amas, German Masse, Italian ammasso, Russian ма́сса (mássa), Spanish masa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈma.so/

Noun

amaso (plural amasi)

mass, pile, heap

Derived terms

amaseskar (“to accrue, pile, huddle”)
amasigar (“to heap up, amass”)

Rwanda-Rundi

Noun

amâso class 6

plural of ijisho

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aˈmaso/
Rhymes: -aso
Syllabification: a‧ma‧so

Verb

amaso

first-person singular present indicative of amasar

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