मास

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa), from Sanskrit मास (māsa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /mɑːs/, [mäːs]

मास • (mās) m (Urdu spelling ماس)

1. a month

   Synonyms: माह (māh), महीना (mahīnā)

• (units of time) समय के मात्रक (samay ke mātrak); बरस (baras, “year”) / साल (sāl, “year”), मास (mās, “month”) / महीना (mahīnā, “month”), सप्ताह (saptāh, “week”), दिन (din, “day”), घंटा (ghaṇṭā, “hour”), मिनट (minaṭ, “minute”), सैकंड (saikaṇḍ, “second”)

From Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa).

मास • (mās) (Latin script mas, Kannada script ಮಾಸ್)

1. flesh, meat

मास m

1. Devanagari script form of māsa (“month”)
2. Devanagari script form of māsa (“mungo bean”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mā́Hasas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́Hasas (“moon, month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”), which underwent thematicization. Cognate with Latin mensis, Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn), Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐏃 (m-a-h /⁠māha⁠/) (Persian ماه (mâh)), Old English mōnaþ, mōna (whence English month, moon).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɑ́ː.sɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.s̪ɐ/

मास • (mā́sa) stem, m

1. the moon
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.92.12:

     उ॒त स्य न॑ उ॒शिजा॑मुर्वि॒या क॒विरहि॑: शृणोतु बु॒ध्न्यो॒३॒॑ हवी॑मनि।
     सूर्या॒मासा॑ वि॒चर॑न्ता दिवि॒क्षिता॑ धि॒या श॑मीनहुषी अ॒स्य बो॑धतम्॥

     utá syá na uśíjāmurviyā́ kavíráhi: śṛṇotu budhnyò hávīmani.
     sū́ryāmā́sā vicárantā divikṣítā dhiyā́ śamīnahuṣī asyá bodhatam.

     And may he too give car, the Sage, from far away, the Dragon of the Deep, to this our yearning call.
     Ye Sun and Moon who dwell in heaven and move in turn, and with your thought, O Earth and Sky, observe this well.

2. a month or the 12th part of the Hindu year
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.24.7:

     न यं जर॑न्ति श॒रदो॒ न मासा॒ न द्याव॒ इन्द्र॑मवक॒र्शय॑न्ति।
     वृ॒द्धस्य॑ चिद्वर्धतामस्य त॒नूः स्तोमे॑भिरु॒क्थैश्च॑ श॒स्यमा॑ना॥

     ná yáṃ járanti śarádo ná mā́sā ná dyā́va índramavakarśáyanti.
     vṛddhásya cidvardhatāmasya tanū́ḥ stómebhirukthaíśca śasyámānā.

     That Indra whom nor months nor autumn seasons cause to wither with age, nor fleeting days enfeeble,—
     Still may his body Wax, even now so mighty, glorified by the lauds and hymns that praise him.

   मासम् (māsam) — for a month

   मासम् एकम् (māsam ekam) — for one month

   मासेन (māsena) — in the course of a month

   मासे (māse) — in a month = after the lapse of a month

3. a symbolical name for the number twelve

• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa)
  • Assamese: মাহ (mah)
  • Bengali: মাস (maś)
  • Odia: ମାସ (māsa)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa)
  • Marathi: मास (mās)
• Pali: māsa
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi: مَان٘ہہ (māṉh)
  • Saraiki: مَان٘ہہ (māṉh)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (māsa)
  • Gujarati: માસ (mās)
  • Hindi: मास (mās)
  • Nepali: मास (mās)
• Sinhalese: මාසය (māsaya)
• → Malayalam: മാസം (māsaṁ)
• → Kannada: ಮಾಸ (māsa)
• → Old Javanese: māsa
  • Javanese: ꦩꦁꦱ (mangsa)
  • → Balinese: ᬫᬵᬲ (masa)
• → Tamil: மாசம் (mācam), மாதம் (mātam)
• → Telugu: మాసము (māsamu)

• चन्द्र (candrá)
• सोम (sóma)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मास”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0814.