má

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaː]

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má

1. third-person singular present indicative of mít

má

1. inflection of můj:
   1. feminine singular nominative/vocative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative/vocative

• Rhymes: -ɔaː

má

1. first/third-person singular present of mega

   eg má fara

   I have to go

má

1. feminine singular of mao

má class 1/3 singular of ? class 2

1. mother

   Má nə̂ kwɔ̌' sim cwə́. ― Mother returned late from the market.

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• IPA^(key): /mauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

See mega.

má

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of mega

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

má (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative máði, supine máð)

1. to blur, to efface [with accusative]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• má út/má burt (“to wipe out”)

• ám

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mˠɑː/^[1]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠaː/

From Old Irish mag, from Proto-Celtic *magos.

• magh (classical)
• maigh
• máigh

má f (genitive singular má, nominative plural mánna)

1. plain (expanse of land with relatively low relief), champaign (open countryside, or an area of open countryside)

• má-oifigeach (“field-officer”)
• oighear má (“field-ice”)
• Ómaigh (“Omagh”)

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton ma, mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

má (triggers lenition)

1. if

   Má chreideann sé an scéal sin tá sé saonta go maith. ― If he believes that story, he’s pretty gullible.

2. even though
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:

     Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.

     When he died, even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her.

• Used in factual conditionals with the present or past indicative and takes the independent form of verbs that distinguish between dependent and independent forms.

• dá (in counterfactual conditionals)
• mura (in negative sentences; ‘unless’)

• más

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

má

1. about, around

• gualainn má gualainn (“shoulder to shoulder”)
• leath má leath (“half and half”)
• má gcuairt (“around, about, on every side”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “má”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “má”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “má”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• ma — nonstandard

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má (ma², Zhuyin ㄇㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吔
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗍
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犘
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痲 / 痳
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菺
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔴 / 麻
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟆, 蟇
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麻

má

1. I (subject), my

Object and vocative pronouns are written as a suffix -ma.

From Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂. Cognate with Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “surely, truly”), Sanskrit स्म (sma).

• IPA^(key): [maː]

má (triggers lenition)

1. if

   Synonym: dïa

For quotations using this term, see Citations:má.

Followed by the present indicative if the condition is in the past or present; by the present subjunctive if the condition is in the future.

• mani (“if not, unless”)

• Irish: má
• Manx: my
• Scottish Gaelic: ma

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 má, ma”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, page 558; reprinted 2017

má

1. first/third-person singular present active indicative of mega

• Icelandic: má
• Faroese: má
• Norwegian Nynorsk: må
• Norwegian Bokmål: må
• Old Swedish: mā
  • Swedish: må
• Danish: må

má

1. indefinite accusative singular of már

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese maa, from Latin malam.

• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: mar (non-rhotic accents)
• Hyphenation: má

má f sg

1. feminine singular of mau

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [maː˦˥]

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From Proto-Vietic *-maːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] maː³ ("cheek"), Arem umæːʔ ("gills"), Proto-Palaungic *cəmaːʔ (“cheek”) (whence Riang [Sak] sᵊmɑʔ²), Proto-Nicobarese *samaː (whence Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] shama (“jaw”)) and Bondo ǰama ("jaw").

This item might be an infixed form (nominalizing *-m-) of the root *ca(ː)ʔ (“to eat”), as suggested in Sidwell (2018).

(classifier cái) má • (𦟐)

1. (anatomy) cheek

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媽 (“mother”, SV: ma), ultimately a nursery word. Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895) directly annotates this as kêu theo tiếng Khách ("way of calling from Chinese") and it was also often paired with tía (another Chinese loan) to form tía má.

• (minced oath) moá

má • (媽, 𦟐)

1. (Southern Vietnam) mother; mom

   Synonyms: mạ, mẹ, mợ, u, bầm, đẻ

From Proto-Vietic *s-maːʔ, whence also mạ (“rice seedlings”), the form used in isolation.

Not related to the second element in rau má.

má • (𥡗)

1. (only in compounds) rice seedlings

má

1. See rau má (“Asiatic pennywort”).