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Etymology
Cognate with Thai ม้า (máa), Lao ມ້າ (mā).
Noun
mã
- horse
Romagnol
Noun
mã f (plural) (Old Faentino)
- hand
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 碼.
Noun
mã • (碼)
- code (short symbol)
- cipher; code (method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning)
- code (computer instructions)
- 2011: "Việt Nam", Báo cáo của Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ về tình hình nhân quyền năm 2010 , United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Ngày 30 tháng 3, nhóm an ninh của Google đã thông báo trên mạng là một mã độc hại được gài trong phần mềm gõ tiếng Việt đã được sử dụng để theo dõi những người bất đồng chính kiến Việt Nam và để “thực hiện những cuộc tấn công từ chối dịch vụ vào các trang blog chứa nội dung bất đồng chính kiến”.- On March 30, Google's security team posted online a statement affirming that malware implanted in Vietnamese-language keyboard software had been used to spy on Vietnamese dissidents and to launch "distributed denial-of-service attacks against blogs containing messages of political dissent."
- Chinese numerals
- yard (unit of length)
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Etymology 2
Noun
mã • (𦄀)
- joss paper
- đốt mã
- to burn joss paper
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Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
(classifier cái) mã
- lemon (defective item)
- plumage on the neck or rear of a rooster
- gà mã tía
- rooster with purple plumage
- outward appearance, looks
- 1961: Nguyễn Huy Tưởng, chapter 1, Sống mãi với Thủ Đô
Cái mã ngoài sang trọng, thượng lưu thật ra chỉ để giấu một đời sống nghèo nàn, một tâm hồn đớn hèn.- Her well-to-do looks actually were only for hiding a life of poverty and a mean soul.
- Nó thì được cái mã thôi.
- He's only good for his looks.
- Chiếc xe tuy xấu mã nhưng máy rất tốt.
- The car, while ugly on the outside, has a very good engine.
- horizontal bar of a rake, to which teeth are attached
- object to be weighed on a scale
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Etymology 4
Sino-Vietnamese reading of various Chinese characters.
Romanization
mã
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 馬 (“horse”)
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 瑪
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 獁
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 碼
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 螞
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 𦄀/𫘖
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 咩/𠴟
Usage notes
Mã is often translated as "horse" when using ma/mà/mả/mã/má/mạ as an example of tone distinctions in Vietnamese. However, like most Sino-Vietnamese readings, mã can only be used this way as part of certain compound words borrowed from Chinese. The word for "horse" in Vietnamese is ngựa.
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Etymology 5
Sino-Vietnamese word from 馬.
Noun
(classifier con) mã
- (xiangqi) horse, a piece labeled with the characters 馬 / 马 (mǎ, black) and 傌 / 㐷 (red)
- (chess) knight
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