masa

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

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

Anagrams

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

masa

1. too much, too many

   Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

Adverb

masa

1. too (to an excessive degree)
2. excessively, too much

   Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

Noun

masa f

1. mass (quantity of matter)

   masa critica ― critical mass

2. dough

   Synonym: pasta

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑˈsɑ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

• Audio:

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Noun

masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)

1. (somewhat high-style) table

   Synonym: stol

Further reading

• “masa” in Obastan.com.

Romanization

masa

1. Romanization of ᬫᬲ
2. Romanization of ᬫᬵᬲ

Noun

masa

1. king

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish masa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]

Noun

masa

1. dough

   Synonym: tapay

Noun

masa

1. deer.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asa

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “masa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “masa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “masa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.

Noun

masa f

1. Mass

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

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “massa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “massa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “masa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “masa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “masa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Noun

masa

1. wing (body part of an animal)

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

Anagrams

• sama

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasa]
• 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”)).

Etymology 2

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

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 of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanization

masa

1. Rōmaji transcription of まさ

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈsa/

Noun

masa f (Hebrew spelling מצה, plural masot)

1. matzah
2. dough

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

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)

Further reading

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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hasaq.

Verb

masa

1. to sharpen

Pronoun

masa

1. illative singular of mii

Alternative forms

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

Verb

masa

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

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.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

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

Further reading

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

Noun

masa

1. deer