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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 麻將/麻将 (májiàng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /mɑːˈʒɒŋ/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɑˈd͡ʒɔŋ/, /mɑˈʒɔŋ/
- (cot-caught merger) IPA(key): /mɑˈd͡ʒɑŋ/, /mɑˈʒɑŋ/
Noun
mahjong (uncountable)
- A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
- A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
Synonyms
Translations
game for four players
- Arabic: مَا جُونْغ m (mā jūnḡ)
- Armenian: մահջոնգ (mahǰong)
- Burmese: မာကျောက် (my) (ma-kyauk)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 麻雀 (yue) (maa4 zoek3, maa4 zoek3-2)
- Hakka: 麻雀 (mà-chiok)
- Hokkien: 麻雀 (zh-min-nan) (môa-chhiok, mâ-chhiok, bâ-chhiok)
- Mandarin: 麻將/麻将 (zh) (májiàng), 麻雀 (zh) (máquè) (rare)
- Dutch: mahjong (nl) n, matjok (nl) n (Suriname)
- Esperanto: maĝango
- Finnish: mahjong (fi)
- French: mah-jong (fr) m
- German: Mah-Jongg n
- Hungarian: madzsong (hu)
- Indonesian: mahyong (id)
- Japanese: 麻雀 (ja) (mājan), 麻将 (ja) (マージャン, mājan)
- Korean: 마작(麻雀) (majak), 마장(麻將) (ko) (majang)
- Mongolian: маажаан (maažaan)
- Polish: madżong (pl)
- Portuguese: mahjong (pt) m, majongue (pt) m
- Russian: маджо́нг (ru) m (madžóng), мацзя́н m (maczján), мадзя́н m (madzján)
- Spanish: mahjong (es) m
- Tagalog: madyong
- Thai: ไพ่นกกระจอก (th) (pâi-nók-grà-jɔ̀ɔk)
- Ukrainian: маджонг (madžonh)
- Uyghur: ماجاڭ (majang)
- Vietnamese: mạt chược (vi) (麻雀 (vi))
- Zhuang: mazcoz
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Finnish
Etymology
From English mahjong, from Cantonese 麻將/麻将 (maa4 zoeng3).
Pronunciation
Noun
mahjong
- mahjong (game for four)
- mahjong (solitaire)
Declension
Further reading
Portuguese
Noun
mahjong m (uncountable)
- mahjong (Chinese tile game)
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English mahjong, from Chinese 麻將/麻将 (májiàng).
Noun
mahjong c
- mahjong (Chinese tile game)
Declension
Further reading