masker
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See also: Masker
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæskə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɑːskə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.
Verb
masker (third-person singular simple present maskers, present participle maskering, simple past and past participle maskered)
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To render giddy or senseless
- 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
- To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence.
- 2000, Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing:
- He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be bewildered.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To choke; stifle.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To decay; rust.
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Noun
masker (plural maskers)
- One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:
- But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […] .
- 2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries, →ISBN:
- Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.
- That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
- Coordinate term: maskee
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:masker.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
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Noun
masker (plural maskers)
Danish
Noun
masker c
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch mascher, from Italian maschera.
Noun
masker n (plural maskers, diminutive maskertje n)
- mask
- Tijdens het carnaval droeg ze een kleurrijk masker om haar identiteit te verbergen.
- During the carnival, she wore a colorful mask to conceal her identity.
Derived terms
- dodenmasker
- gezichtsmasker
- ontmaskeren
Related terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: masker
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
masker
- inflection of maskeren:
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch masker, from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha.
Pronunciation
Noun
- mask, a cover, or partial cover, for the face
- (colloquial) Short for masker wajah (“facial mask”).
Further reading
- “masker” 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.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
masker m or f
Verb
masker
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- maskar m or f
Noun
masker f
- indefinite plural of maske (Etymology 1)
Noun
masker m or f
- indefinite feminine plural of maske (Etymology 2)
Swedish
Noun
masker
- indefinite plural of mask
Anagrams
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