magma

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡ.mə/

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• Rhymes: -æɡmə

magma (countable and uncountable, plural magmas or magmata)

1. (geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:

     By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.

2. (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
3. Any soft doughy mass.
4. The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.

• → Vietnamese: mắc ma

• Magma (algebra) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Magma (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Magma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gamma

Borrowed from Latin magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑx.maː/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ma

magma n (uncountable)

1. magma (molten terrestrial mass) [from 19th c.]
   • 1886 June 26, “Wetenschappelijke mededeelingen”, in Jave-bode, volume 35, number 148, page 7:

     Na de hypothesen van kapt. Laplace en Taye kort uiteengezet en op de verschillen bij hen gewezen te hebben, kwam spr. tot de gewone verklaring van de afplatting der aarde, door de aswenteling van een oorspronkelijk vloeibare aardmassa: het magma.

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2. (obsolete) dense paste, dough-like mass
   • 1746, “Arcanum Tartari”, in Bataviasche apotheek, page 33:

     Als nu de uitdampinge zuur begint te ruiken, dan laat het zagtjes uitdroogen, zo zal 'er een bruin Magma wegens de daarby zynde olie overblyven: Calcineert deze Magma zachjes in een smelt Kroes: en als het koud geworden solveert het gecalcineerde in zuiver water, filtreert en crystalliseert het Arcanum.

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• magmakamer
• magmatisch

From English magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɡmɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mag‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): mag‧ma

magma

1. magma

• “magma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• gamma

• magmat (dated, rare)

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).

• IPA^(key): /maɡ.ma/

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magma m (plural magmas)

1. (geology) magma
2. (mathematics) magma
3. melange, hodgepodge, farrago (disordered mixture of disparate things)

• magmatique

• “magma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

magma m (plural magmas)

1. magma

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒɡmɒ]
• Hyphenation: mag‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

magma (plural magmák)

1. magma

• magmakamra

Borrowed from Latin magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.ma/
• Rhymes: -aɡma
• Hyphenation: màg‧ma

magma m (plural magmi)

1. (geology) magma
2. (figurative) jumble

• gamma

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “a kind of thick unguent”), derived from μάσσω (mássō, “I knead”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɡ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaɡ.ma]

magma n (genitive magmatis); third declension

1. The dregs of an unguent.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “magma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• magma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

magma

1. magma

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

magma m (definite singular magmaen, indefinite plural magmaer, definite plural magmaene)
magma n (definite singular magmaet, indefinite plural magma, definite plural magmaa or magmaene)

1. (geology) magma

• “magma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

magma m (definite singular magmaen, indefinite plural magmaer or magmaar, definite plural magmaene or magmaane)
magma n (definite singular magmaet, indefinite plural magma, definite plural magmaa)

1. (geology) magma

• “magma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Internationalism; compare English magma, French magma, German Magma, ultimately from Latin magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.ma/

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• Rhymes: -aɡma
• Syllabification: mag‧ma

magma f

1. magma (molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.)
2. magma (any soft doughy mass)

• magma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• magma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).

• Hyphenation: mag‧ma

magma m (plural magmas)

1. (geology, volcanology) magma (underground molten matter)

From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma).

• IPA^(key): /mǎɡma/
• Hyphenation: mag‧ma

màgma f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀гма)

1. (geology) magma

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡma/ [ˈmaɣ̞.ma]
• Rhymes: -aɡma
• Syllabification: mag‧ma

magma m (plural magmas)

1. (geology) magma

• “magma”, 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

Borrowed from English magma, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡma/ [ˈmaɡ.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɡma
• Syllabification: mag‧ma

magma (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜄ᜔ᜋ)

1. (geology) magma

• “magma”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

magma (definite accusative magmayı, plural magmalar)

1. (planetology, geology, volcanology) magma

• magma on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr