masa

English

Etymology 1

Noun

masa (uncountable) (More fully, masa paper)

1. (art) A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting

Etymology 2

From Spanish masa (“dough”). Doublet of mass.

Noun

masa (usually uncountable, plural masas)

1. (US) Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
   • 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, quoting Fermín Núñez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The chef Fermín Núñez of Suerte, in Austin, Texas, considers masa “the canvas of what Mexican cooking is all about.” “Without masa,” he said, “there’s no tortillas, and, without tortillas, there’s no tacos!”

Anagrams

• -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Sama, aams, amas, maas

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ماسه, from Bulgarian ма́са (mása), from Romanian masă, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

• Audio

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Noun

masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)

1. (somewhat high-style) table

   Synonym: stol

Declension

Derived terms

• masaüstü

Further reading

• “masa” in Obastan.com.

Balinese

Romanization

masa

1. Romanization of ᬫᬲ
2. Romanization of ᬫᬵᬲ

Bambara

Noun

masa

1. king

Derived terms

References

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish masa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/,

Noun

masa

1. dough

   Synonym: tapay

Derived terms

Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

masa

1. deer.

Czech

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -asa

Etymology 1

Noun

masa f (related adjective masový)

1. mass (a large body of individuals, especially persons)

   masa lidí ― mass of people

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

masa

1. inflection of maso:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• masa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• masa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• masa in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.

Noun

masa f

1. Mass

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin massa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese massa and Spanish masa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa̝/

Noun

masa f (plural masas)

1. dough

   Synonym: amoado

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 123:

     logo todos ordenaron que fesesen as paandeiras o pan do dia, triigo de tres onças, ben apostado e ben linpo e de boa masa

     after this everyone ordered the bakers to make the daily bread, wheat of three ounces, well prepared and very clean and of good dough

2. mortar

   Synonyms: argamasa, morteiro

3. (Physics) mass

Derived terms

• amasar
• maseira

References

• “massa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “massa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “masa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “masa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “masa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hopi

Noun

masa

1. wing (body part of an animal)

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse masa, from Proto-Germanic *masōną. Cognate with English maze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːsa/
• Rhymes: -aːsa

Verb

masa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative masaði, supine masað)

1. (intransitive) to chat, to chatter

Conjugation

Anagrams

• sama

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa
• Homophone: massa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

Etymology 1

From Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

• The sense of doubt or disbelief expression is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦩꦺꦴꦱꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (mosok), variant of ꦩꦱ (masa, “disbelief expression”, literally “certainly not”), from Old Javanese masa (“certainly not”) (cf. salah masa (“at the wrong time”)).

Noun

masa (plural masa-masa, first-person possessive masaku, second-person possessive masamu, third-person possessive masanya)

1. period,
   1. history: period of time seen as coherent entity.
   2. length of time.
   3. length of time during which something repeats.
2. time,
   1. inevitable passing of events.
   2. quantity of availability in time.
   3. time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
   4. particular moment or hour.
   5. measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
   6. numerical indication of a particular moment in time.
3. (geology) era

Synonyms

• kala
• waktu

Derived terms

Adverb

masa

1. words to express distrust and rhetorical in nature
2. express the speaker's doubt or disbelief about something that they have just heard, learned, or noticed

Alternative forms

• masak

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “a weight of gold”).

Adverb

masa

1. (archaeology) unit of measurement of weight for gold and silver

Further reading

• “masa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

masa

1. Rōmaji transcription of まさ

Ladino

Etymology

From Sephardi Hebrew מַצָּה (masá), from Biblical Hebrew מַצָּה (maṩå).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈsa/

Noun

masa f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מצה, plural masot)

1. matzah
2. dough

Latvian

Noun

masa f (4th declension)

1. (physics) mass
2. mass, quantity, amount
3. mass, body, bulk, blob
4. (in the plural) the masses
5. (genitive plural) mass, large-scale

Declension

Malay

Etymology

Probably from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /masə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /masa/
• Rhymes: -asə, -sə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

masa (Jawi spelling ماس, plural masa-masa, informal 1st possessive masaku, 2nd possessive masamu, 3rd possessive masanya)

1. time (inevitable passing of events)
2. time (quantity of availability in time)
3. time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
4. time (particular moment or hour)
5. time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
6. time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)

Synonyms

• kala / کالا
• waktu / وقتو

Further reading

• “masa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Ngaju

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hasaq.

Verb

masa

1. to sharpen

Northern Sami

Pronoun

masa

1. illative singular of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• maset
• maste (simple past)
• mast (past participle)

Verb

masa

1. inflection of mase:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mase

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːsɑ/

Verb

masa (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative masa/mas)

1. to nag
   • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge:

     […] sidan tok han til aa masa um ei Gullkedja, som han visste, ho skulde hava; han vilde kaupa da Halsgullet, um da var aldri so dyrt […]

     then he started nagging about a gold chain, that he knew she had; he wanted to buy that necklace, no matter the price

References

• “masa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sa/
• Rhymes: -sa
• Homophones: māsa, māṣa
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Etymology 1

Noun

masa

1. Alternative spelling of māsa (“month; time”)

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

masa

1. certainly not
2. it is impossible

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦩꦁꦱ (mangsa)
• → Balinese: ᬫᬲ (masa)

Further reading

• "masa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Ometepec Nahuatl

Noun

masa

1. deer

Polish

Alternative forms

• massa (Middle Polish)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin māssa. First attested in 1534.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

Noun

masa f

1. (countable) mass (shapeless substance that is flexible and allows itself to be formed)

   Synonym: bryła

2. (uncountable, colloquial) mass (large number or amount)

   Synonym: ogrom

3. (countable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter)
4. (electricity) ground (point against which potentials are measured in an electrical or electronic system)
5. (countable) mass (large object or objects seen in faint outline)
6. (uncountable, obsolete, property law) property remaining after the deceased testator or after the bankruptcy of a merchant or industrialist, subject to division among creditors or heirs
7. (obsolete, uncountable, metallurgy) a type of greasy sand used in the production of steel castings
8. (countable, obsolete, biliards) a billiard cue with a wide butt on the thinner end for better hitting the ball
9. (countable, Middle Polish) mixture

   Synonym: mieszanina

10. (in the plural) masses (people; especially a large number of people; the general population)

Declension

Derived terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), masa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 33 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

• masa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• masy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• masa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “MASA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.07.2019
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 892

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French masser.

Verb

a masa (third-person singular present masează, past participle masat) 1st conj.

1. to massage

Conjugation

Related terms

• masaj
• masare
• masat (past participle of masa)

Etymology 2

Noun

masa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of masă

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

màsa f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀са)

1. mass

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /máːsa/

Noun

mȃsa f

1. mass (large quantity; sum)

Inflection

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa
• Homophone: (Latin America) maza

Etymology 1

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

Noun

masa f (plural masas)

1. (food) dough

   Synonym: pasta

2. (physics) mass
3. drove (large amount)

   en masa ― in droves

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

masa

1. inflection of masar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “masa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From a dialectal masa (“move or work slowly”). Probably sound symbolic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːsa/
• Rhymes: -²ɑːsa

Verb

masa (present masar, preterite masade, supine masat, imperative masa)

1. (reflexive) to move slowly

   Jag masade mig ur sängen

   I dragged myself out of bed

Conjugation

References

• masa sig in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• Maas

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish masa, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/,
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Noun

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ)

1. dough
2. people; the masses

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मास (māsa). Compare Tausug masa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/,
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Noun

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. time; epoch; season

   Synonyms: panahon, salukoy, sagsag

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/,
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Verb

masa (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to read

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈsaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Verb

masâ (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to make something wet

Further reading

• “masa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tausug

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay masa.

Noun

masa

1. era, epoch, age

   Synonym: jaman

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ماسه, borrowed from Bulgarian маса (masa, “table”), from Romanian masă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Noun

masa (definite accusative masayı, plural masalar)

1. table

Declension

References

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian massa.

Noun

masa f (plural mase)

1. mass

Adverb

masa

1. too much
2. very