mā

From Common Nuristani *māi, probably an early borrowing of Middle Chinese 米 (mei^X). Compare Tregami myä, Waigali mä, Kamkata-viri mo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː/

mā (Sanu)^[1]

1. husked rice

mā

1. Rōmaji transcription of まあ

• ma — nonstandard

mā (ma¹, Zhuyin ㄇㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 媽 / 妈
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嬤 / 嬷
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孑
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 抵
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摨
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擳 / 𰓜
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 虿
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚂
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麵 / 面
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 抹

Contraction of marama.^[1]

mā

1. (colour/color) white

• tea

mā

1. for (representing future possession)

   Mā Mū tēnei pukapuka. ― This book is for Mū.

2. by, made by, acted on (combined with e to indicate future tense for who will perform an action)

   Mā tōku matua koe e whakahoki. ― My father will take you back.

3. (used with hei to show a relationship)

   Hei irāmutu a Aroha mā Hēni. ― Aroha is Jane's niece.

4. by way of; via; through

   Ka haere rātou mā Taupō. ― They'll go via Taupō.

5. by means of; on (followed by runga)

   Haere ai tō mātau pāpā ki tana mahi mā runga hōiho. ― Our father went to his work by horseback.

6. (used in names to represent the points of a compass)

   marangai mā tonga ― southeasterly wind

• “mā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /mʲæj/
• Bender phonemes: {may}

mā

1. breadfruit.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g/s-pʷa. Cognate to Burmese ဝါး (wa:).

• IPA^(key):

mā

1. bamboo

Inherited from Sanskrit मा (mā, “do not”).

mā

1. (prohibitive) do not

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

mā f

1. mother
2. moon

mā

1. First person dual exclusive

   we (he/she and I, but not you)

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₁ (prohibitive particle). Cognate with Sanskrit मा (mā), Avestan 𐬨𐬁 (mā), Ancient Greek μή (mḗ), Albanian mo, Old Armenian մի (mi), Old Persian 𐎶𐎠 (m-a /⁠mā⁠/), Persian مـ (ma-).

mā

1. no, not
2. (before an adjective) un-, in-

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mā

From Proto-Polynesian *maqa.

mā

1. (to a male) brother-in-law (one's sister's husband)
2. (to a male) cousin-in-law (one's cousin's husband)

From Proto-Polynesian *ma. Cognates include Tuvaluan maa and Samoan mā.

mā

1. shame
2. embarrassment

mā (plural mamā)

1. (stative) to be ashamed
2. (stative) to be embarrassed

From Proto-Polynesian *maqa. Cognates include Maori mā and Samoan mā.

mā

1. Marks the intent of an alianably possessed object; for, about

• mō

From Proto-Polynesian *ma. Cognates include Tuvaluan maa and Samoan mā.

mā

1. we two (exclusive)

mā

1. (transitive) to presume, assume, think

Borrowed from Samoan ma'a.

mā

1. object made of stone

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 198

From Proto-Oceanic *mara (“to spoil, to go foul ” – compare with Maori mara “food preserved by steeping in water”, Samoan mala “soft ” and Fijian mara “stench of a corpse”).^[1][2] For sense of bread, compare with Fijian madrai for similar semantic evolution.

mā

1. preserve of fermented breadfruit, bananas or plantain stored in pits prior^[3]
   1. grain-based bread introduced by Westerners