mach

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See also: Mach, Mach., MACH, mách, and mạch

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /max/
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  • Homophone: mag (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
  • Rhymes: -ax

Verb

mach

  1. singular imperative of machen

Middle Dutch

Verb

mach

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of mōgen

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

mach

  1. Alternative form of macche

Etymology 2

Verb

mach

  1. Alternative form of macchen

Pennsylvania German

Verb

mach

  1. first-person singular of mache
  2. second-person singular imperative of mache

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxъ. Deverbal from machać.

Noun

mach m inan

  1. waving, flapping
Declension
Declension of mach
singular plural
nominative mach machy
genitive machu machów
dative machowi machom
accusative mach machy
instrumental machem machami
locative machu machach
vocative machu machy

Etymology 2

Noun

mach m inan

  1. (Lublin) a type of folk dance
    Synonym: wiater
Declension
Declension of mach
singular plural
nominative mach machy
genitive macha machów
dative machowi machom
accusative mach machy
instrumental machem machami
locative machu machach
vocative machu machy

Interjection

mach

  1. an exclamation used when some action is performed swiftly

Etymology 3

From Ernst Mach.

Noun

mach m inan

  1. (physics) Mach number
Declension
Declension of mach
singular plural
nominative mach machy
genitive macha machów
dative machowi machom
accusative mach machy
instrumental machem machami
locative machu machach
vocative machu machy

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mach f

  1. genitive plural of macha

Further reading

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit मक्षी (makṣī, “fly”).

Noun

mach f

  1. fly (insect)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Mach or French Mach.

Noun

mach m (plural machi)

  1. mach

Declension

Declension of mach
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mach machul (niște) machi machii
genitive/dative (unui) mach machului (unor) machi machilor
vocative machule machilor

Scottish Gaelic

Adverb

mach

  1. Clipping of a-mach (“out”).

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mach m (Cyrillic spelling мацх)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mah

Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

mach m inan (genitive singular machu, nominative plural machy, genitive plural machov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. moss

Declension

Declension of mach
singular plural
nominative mach machy
genitive machu machov
dative machu machom
accusative mach machy
locative machu machoch
instrumental machom machmi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mach”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

mach

  1. Nasal mutation of bach (“small”).

Etymology 2

Noun

mach

  1. Nasal mutation of bach (“hook”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bach fach mach unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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