maca

Borrowed from Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.

maca (countable and uncountable, plural macas)

1. Any of species Lepidium meyenii, an Andean medicinal herb, or an extract of the root of this plant.

   Synonym: Peruvian ginseng

   • 2009, M. Hermann, T. Bernet, The transition of maca from neglect to market prominence, page 18:

     The overwhelming majority of maca roots are dried after harvest. In the cold, dry atmosphere of the puna the dried roots remain edible for several years. A minor proportion of the freshly harvested roots are roasted in huatias, earthen ovens […]

   • 2007 March 18, G. Pascal Zachary, “Is the Key to Creativity in Your Pillbox, or in Your PC?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The gap between what the Internet promises and what it delivers is part of the reason that people […] continue to turn to enhancers from caffeine to maca to virtual reality.

   • 2014, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, volume 9, page 802:

     Dried macas are cooked in water or milk and used to prepare a kind of sweet and aromatic porridge, mazamorra. The small macas are preferred, since they are less fibrous.

• Lepidium meyenii on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AACM, ACMA, AMAC, Cama, MCAA, cama

• IPA^(key): /maˈħa/ [mʌˈħʌ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca

macá

1. what? (inanimate)

• má (“what kind of?”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “maca”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

maca

1. inflection of macë:
   1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural
   2. definite nominative singular

maca (plural macaca)

1. stick

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈma.ka]

maca

1. feminine singular of maco

maca

1. inflection of macar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

maca

1. To give.

From Proto-Nahuan *maka, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *makaC.

maca

1. give

• IPA^(key): /bãˈka/

maca

1. excrement, poop, fecal matter.

• cʉra

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "maca", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

maca

1. right (direction)

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑkɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑkɑ

maca

1. maca, Peruvian ginseng, Lepidium meyenii

From Maca, a diminutive of the female given names Margit or Mária. First attested in 1647.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

maca (plural macák)

1. (dialectal or slang, derogatory) female lover (of a man)

   Synonym: szerető

2. (slang, derogatory) woman

   Synonym: nő

• maca in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• maca in Ferenc Pusztai, editor, Magyar értelmező kéziszótár [A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÉKsz.²), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003 (online searchable version under development).
• Judit Takács (2007) “Egy személynév köznevesülése: a Maca és konnotációja”, in Magyar Nyelvjárások (in Hungarian), number 45, Debreceni Egyetem Magyar Nyelvtudományi Tanszék, pages 63–71

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠakə/

maca

1. vocative plural of mac

maca

1. (Indonesian) romanization of ꦩꦕ

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.kɑ/

maca

1. singular imperative of macian

maca

1. to read

   Aiṅ hantĕ bisa maca suratiṅ ja na mohita

   I cannot read these letters of mine for I am foolish

• > Sundanese: maca (inherited)

• matsa

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

maca

1. eye

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: ma‧ca
• Homophone: Maca

Borrowed from Yiddish מצה (matse).

maca f (related adjective macowy)

1. (uncountable, Judaism) matzo (thin, unleavened bread)

   Synonym: przaśnik

2. (countable, Judaism) matzo (piece of such bread)

   Synonym: przaśnik

Inherited from Old Polish maca / meca. Compare German Metze.

maca f

1. (obsolete) dry measure of grain

   Synonym: garniec

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maca

1. third-person singular present of macać

• maca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• maca in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• maca in PWN's encyclopedia
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “maca”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca.

• Rhymes: -akɐ

maca f (plural macas)

1. stretcher (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured or dead person)
2. gurney (wheeled bed used in hospitals)
3. sailor’s hammock

From Kimbundu maka (“conversation, word”).

• maka

maca f (plural macas)

1. (Angola) problem

   Não há maca.

   No problem.

2. (Angola) argument, fuss

• “maca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French macao or Italian macao.

maca f (uncountable)

1. Mau Mau (card game)

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maca.

• IPA^(key): /mǎːt͡sa/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca

máca f (Cyrillic spelling ма́ца)

1. (hypocoristic) cat, kitty

   Synonym: mačka

• “maca”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaka/ [ˈma.ka]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ma‧ca

Borrowed from Quechua maqa.

maca f (plural macas)

1. maca (Andean herb)

maca f

1. feminine singular of maco

maca

1. inflection of macar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “maca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

maca

1. tree

• Taino Vocabulary in the Dominican Republic