mach

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

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /max/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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

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

Noun

mach m animal

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

Interjection

mach

  1. used when some action is performed swiftly

Etymology 3

Named after Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.

Noun

mach m inan

  1. (physics) Mach number (ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium)
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

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mach machul machi machii
genitive-dative mach machului 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 (relational adjective machový or (literary) mašný)

  1. moss

Declension

Declension of mach (pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativemachmachy
genitivemachumachov
dativemachumachom
accusativemachmachy
locativemachumachoch
instrumentalmachommachmi

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, 2003–2024

Welsh

Pronunciation

Adjective

mach

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

Noun

mach

  1. Nasal mutation of bach (“hook”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of bach
radical soft nasal aspirate
bach fach mach unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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