mas

• (metrology): From m- +‎ as.

mas

1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

• (ISO 639): Abbreviation of English Maasai.

mas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maasai.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Maasai terms

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

mas (plural mas)

1. A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 520:

     When she was pregnant with her second child they ran away to France and played at being artists in a secluded mas near Avignon – two months of bliss.

mas

1. plural of ma

mas (plural mas)

1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.
   • 2017 December 22, Shane Superville, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:

     Ward, who was best known for his winning portrayal of George Bailey’s Cylindul the Sun God from the Golden City of Palengue, became a staple on the mas circuit up until the 1990s, lending his support to the likes of Peter Minshall and others.

   • 2017 September 28, “Neville Aming Passes Away At 96 In T&T”, in Bernews:

     Aming was a recipient of the Humming Bird Silver for his contribution to the vibrancy of T&T mas in 1996.

   • 2016 February 7, Michelle Loubon, “Taking a Carnival tour”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:

     Belmont masman and wire bender Richard Lera displays a headpiece at his Norfolk Street mas camp.

• 'ams, MSA, Sam., ASM, AMS, sam, sma, SMA, Sam, S. Am., A.M.s, SAM, asm

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

• IPA^(key): /mas/

mas (plural maste)

1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

• hoofmas

• mat

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [mas]

mas (aorist mata, participle matur)

1. to measure
2. to estimate, assess
3. to consider

• matem
• matje
• matshëm

• mot

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ̊ (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek πός (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic по (po, “behind, after”)).

mas (+ ablative)

1. behind, after, beyond
2. at
3. over
4. against

mas

1. behind, after
2. hence

• masi (Gheg)
• masanej (Gheg)

• pas
• mbasi
• përmasë
• mbas

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

mas

1. but

   Synonym: pero

   Mas nun hai qu'estrayese

   But don't get distracted

2. only, other than, no more than (used with negative)

   Nun había mas unos vecinos

   There wasn't anyone other than some neighbours

Borrowed from Spanish más.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]

mas (Basahan spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality

   Synonym: urog

   Mas dakula ako kisa saiya.

   I am bigger than him/her.

   Mas mahal an talong digdi kompara sa balyong merkado.

   The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmas]

mas m (plural masos)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

• Masdenverge
• Masdevall
• masia

• masover

• “mas”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: maz

mas

1. genitive plural of maso

A back-formation of mase (“to slog”).

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

1. bother, trouble

A back-formation of mase (“to jostle, squeeze”).

mas (indeclinable)

1. jostling (the act of pushing oneself towards and past an obstacle, e.g. one or more people)

   Synonym: masen

• “mas” in Den Danske Ordbog

mas

1. imperative of mase

• màs (ORB, narrow)

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of més (“more”).

mas (ORB, broad)

1. but

• mais in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mas in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

• IPA^(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/, /mas/ ~ /mɑs/

mas m (plural mas)

1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

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

• IPA^(key): /mas/

From French mars (“March”).

mas

1. March

From French masse (“mass”).

mas

1. mass

From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

• IPA^(key): /mas/

mas

1. gold (element)

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦱ꧀ (mas, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, mās, ĕmas, hĕmas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

mas

1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

• mas (used for males)
• mbak (used for females)
• kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
• Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
• saudari (used for women of equal status)
• bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
• ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
• sampeyan (Central & East Java, gender-neutral)
• panjenengan (Central Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Inherited from Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

mas

1. alternative form of emas (“gold”)

• mas kawin

• “mas” 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.

From motoscafo armato silurante.

mas m (invariable)

1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of ma.

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mas (Hebrew spelling מאס)^[1]

1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)

   Antonym: menos

   • 2019 November 27, Eliz Gatenyo, “Las Lentejas Del Onkl Izak”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     La madre de mi esfuegra Lea, teniya un ermano muncho mas grande de eya ke se yamava Izak. Izak era el mas grande de los 5 ermanos i era muy seriozo.

     My mother-in-law's mother Lea had a brother much bigger than her whose name was Izak. Izak was the biggest of the three brothers and was very serious.

2. (with definite article) most; -est (used to make superlatives)

   Antonym: menos

   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[2], numbers 11–34, page 105:

     La fiesta de Soucoth que el Pentatioco (cinco livros de la ley) llama Hag Aasif, la fiesta de la recolta, es la mas importante y la mas alegre por un pueblo esencialmente agricultor segun era el pueblo de Israel.

     The festival of Sukkot that the Pentateuch calls Hag Aasif, the harvest festival, is the most important and the most joyful for an essentially agricultural people as were the people of Israel.

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), whence Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“young man”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young girl”), and Old Armenian մարի (mari, “female bird, hen”). But this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

It has been connected with masturbor and with mālus#Etymology_3_2 (“pole”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmas]

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

1. male
2. man

   Synonym: vir

Mās means male, in contrast to fēmina (“female”); thus, it means man (in contrast to woman) when used in reference to an adult human, but it can also be used to refer to male animals, deities, or even plants. "Man" in the sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, and in the sense of “(free) adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• fēmina (“female”)

mās (neuter mare); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. male, masculine, manly

   Synonyms: masculus, masculīnus, virīlis

   • Apuleius Madaurensis, De Mundo 20.1:

     Sic mare et femineum secus iungitur, ac diversus utriusque sexus ex dissimilibus simile animal facit

     Thus the male and female sex is joined together, and the different sex of each makes a similar animal from the dissimilar.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• “mas” in volume 8, column 421, line 74 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    
  • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

• maz, mâz

From Portuguese mas.

• IPA^(key): /mɐʃ/, /mɐs/

mas

1. but

   Mas vôs sábi qui ancusa iou tâ papiâ.

   But you know what I'm talking about.

• Not to be confused with más.

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Clipping of emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as
• Hyphenation: mas

mas (Jawi spelling مس, plural mas-mas)

1. aphetic form of emas

• > Indonesian: mas (inherited)

mas

1. alternative form of masse (“mass”)

mas

1. alternative form of messe (“mass”)

mas

1. locative singular of mii

mas

1. imperative of mase

mas

1. imperative of masa

mas n (definite singular maset, uncountable)

1. nagging (constant complaint)

   Synonym: kjas

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

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mas m (plural mases)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan-speaking and Catalan-speaking territories.

Ultimately from Latin magis. Cognate with Spanish mas

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mas

1. but

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of mais.

mas

1. but; yet
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Pois que a santa dona o fillo do Conde recebeu,
     de o crïar muit' apóst' e mui ben muito se trameteu;
     mas un irmão que o Cond' havía, mui falss' e sandeu,
     Pediu-lle séu amor; e porque ela mal llo acolleu,
     degolou-ll' o meninno ũa noit' e meteu
     ll' o cuitélo na mão pola fazer perder.
     Quenas coitas deste mundo ben quisér sofrer…

     Given that the holy woman received a son from the Count, someone intervened to make him very elegant and very well treated, but the Count's very dishonest and silly brother asked for her love, and because she protected him poorly, he slit the boy's throat that night and put the knife in the hand to be rid of it. The world's afflictions may well tolerate him…

• Portuguese: mas

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin magis.

mas

1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 82r:

     Al dia ſeteno dixieró lo ellos aſáſó. Q́ es mas dulce q́ la miel o q́l es mas fuerte del leon. dixo ſápſó. Si nó araſſedes có mẏ uaq́ella. nó ſoltariedes mi adeuináçiella.

     [Al día seteno dixieron lo ellos a Sansón: “Que es mas dulce que la miel, o qual es mas fuerte del león?” Dixo Sansón: “Si no arassedes con mi vaqiella, non soltariedes mi adevinanciella”.]

     On the seventh day they said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey, or what is stronger than a lion?” Samson said: “Had you not ploughed with my heifer, you would not have solved my little riddle”.

mas

1. but; yet

   Synonym: pero

   • 1492, Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor 151:

     Lo cual yo no niego, pero atrevime a ello pensando que me harías merced no segund quien la pedía, mas segund tú, que la haviés de dar

     I do not deny this, but I dared to do it thinking that you would forgive me, not because of who was asking for forgiveness, but because it is proper of you, who had to do it

• Ladino: ma, mas, מאס, מה
• Spanish: mas, más

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mas”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 329

mas

1. most

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

mas f

1. genitive plural of masa

From Old Galician-Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Doublet of mais.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mæʃ/, /mæs/
• Homophone: mais (Brazil, with intrusive /j/)
• Hyphenation: mas

mas

2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

   Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto

   O livro é curto, mas bom.

   The book is short, but good.

   Somos preguiçosos mas fazemos o que precisa de ser feito.

   We are lazy but we do what needs to be done.

4. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)

   Fomos recebidos não com aplausos, mas pedradas.

   We were not received with applause, but [with] rocks.

6. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)

   Todos alunos reprovaram em matemática, mas ninguém estudou mesmo.

   All students flunked mathematics, but no one studied really.

8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

   Mas que porcaria!

   What the heck!

   Mas que diabos vocês estão fazendo aqui?

   What the hell are you doing here?

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

• mas é
• mas sim
• mas também

• Macanese: mas

mas (not comparable)

2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how

   Synonyms: e como, e

   Este livro é bom, mas bom mesmo.

   This book is good, really good.

   Os ladrões correram, mas correram.

   The thieves ran, and how they ran.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

mas m (invariable)

2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

   Quero que você termine isso, sem mas nem porquês.

   I want you to finish this, no buts or whys.

• deixar de mas
• sem mas nem meio mas

From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀰𑁆𑀘 (maśca).

mas

1. fish

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀲 (maṃsa), from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mēms-ó-m, from *mḗms.

mas m (plural masa)

1. meat

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[4], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

Inherited from Latin mansum, from mansus.

mas n (plural masuri)

1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

• mânea

mas

1. past participle of mânea

mas

1. if is

• This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).

  mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

Contracted from earlier *hamas, from Eastern Cushitic *hamas- ("snake"). Cognate with Burji hamasi, Hadiyya hamashichcho, Sidamo hamaso.

• IPA^(key): /mas/

mas m (plural masas)

1. snake

• De Larajasse, E. (1897). Somali-English and English-Somali dictionary (p. 106). MAR-MAS.
• Puglielli, A., & Mansuur, C. C. (2012). Qaamuuska Af‒Soomaaliga (in Somali) Roma: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente. (p. 584)

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of más.

• IPA^(key): /mas/ [mas]

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas
• Homophone: más

mas

1. (formal) but

   Synonym: pero

2. (formal) however

   Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

mas

1. misspelling of más
2. obsolete spelling of más

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

• “mas”, 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

mas c

1. Dalecarlian; a man or boy from the province of Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
2. (colloquial) tax collector

man from Dalecarlia

• dalmas
• dalkarl

tax collector

• skatteindrivare
• skattmas

• dalkulla (“female Dalecarlian”)

• mas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• -sam, sam, sam-

Borrowed from Spanish más, from Latin magis.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

mas (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality; -er

   Mas malaki ako kumpara sa kaniya.

   I am bigger than him/her.

   Mas mahal ang talong dito kumpara sa kabilang palengke.

   The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

• sam-

From English must.

mas

1. must
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:3:

     Na God i tok olsem, “Lait i mas kamap.” Orait lait i kamap.

     →New International Version translation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

más

1. knife

• "Tsuut'ina Nominalized Phrases (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6EdGunXLc

• ma's

From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /aː/ in South Wales. For the same semantic development compare Irish amuigh (“out”) < Old Irish i mmaig (literally “in (a) field”).

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

mas

1. (South Wales, colloquial) out

   Synonym: allan

mas

1. to die