masa

Borrowed from Japanese 柾 (masa) or 政 (masa), an abbreviation of 柾紙 (masagami) or 政紙 (masagami).^[1]

masa (uncountable) (More fully, masa paper)

1. (art) A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting

From Spanish masa (“dough”). Doublet of mass.

masa (usually uncountable, plural masas)

1. (US) Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
   • 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, quoting Fermín Núñez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The chef Fermín Núñez of Suerte, in Austin, Texas, considers masa “the canvas of what Mexican cooking is all about.” “Without masa,” he said, “there’s no tortillas, and, without tortillas, there’s no tacos!”

• -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Sama, aams, amas, maas

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/
• Syllabification: ma‧sa
• Rhymes: -asa

masa

1. too much, too many

   Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

masa

1. too (to an excessive degree)
2. excessively, too much

   Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

masa f

1. mass (quantity of matter)

   masa critica ― critical mass

2. dough

   Synonym: pasta

• biomasa
• en massa
• massa d'aire

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ماسه, from Bulgarian ма́са (mása), from Romanian masă, from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): [mɑˈsɑ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

• Audio:

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masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)

1. (somewhat high-style) table

   Synonym: stol

• masaüstü

• “masa” in Obastan.com.

• IPA^(key): /ma.sə/
• Rhymes: -asə
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

Possibly related to Malay masak.

masa (Balinese script ᬫᬲ)

1. cooking

Borrowed from Old Javanese masa (“certainly not; it is impossible”).

masa (Balinese script ᬫᬲ)

1. really?

Borrowed from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“month; time”), from Sanskrit [Term?].

masa (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬲ)

1. month
2. year
3. season

From asa (“feeling”) +‎ ma-.

masa (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬲ)

1. to feel
2. (copulative) to feel; to be felt

• “masa” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

masa

1. king

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Borrowed from Spanish masa.

• Hyphenation: ma‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]

masa

1. dough

   Synonym: tapay

masa

1. deer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasa]

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• Rhymes: -asa

masa f (relational adjective masový)

1. mass (a large body of individuals, especially persons)

   masa lidí ― mass of people

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

masa

1. inflection of maso:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• “masa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “masa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “masa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.

masa f

1. Mass

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin massa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese massa and Spanish masa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa̝/

masa f (plural masas)

1. dough

   Synonym: amoado

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 123:

     logo todos ordenaron que fesesen as paandeiras o pan do dia, triigo de tres onças, ben apostado e ben linpo e de boa masa

     after this everyone ordered the bakers to make the daily bread, wheat of three ounces, well prepared and very clean and of good dough

2. mortar

   Synonyms: argamasa, morteiro

3. (Physics) mass

• amasar
• maseira

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “massa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “massa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “masa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “masa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “masa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

masa

1. wing (body part of an animal)

From Old Norse masa, from Proto-Germanic *masōną. Cognate with English maze.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːsa/
• Rhymes: -aːsa

masa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative masaði, supine masað)

1. (intransitive) to chat, to chatter

• sama

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasa]
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa
• Homophone: massa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

From Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

• The sense of doubt or disbelief expression is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦩꦺꦴꦱꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (mosok), variant of ꦩꦱ (masa, “disbelief expression”, literally “certainly not”), from Old Javanese masa (“certainly not”) (cf. salah masa (“at the wrong time”)).

masa (plural masa-masa)

1. period,
   1. history: period of time seen as coherent entity
   2. length of time
   3. length of time during which something repeats
2. time,
   1. inevitable passing of events
   2. quantity of availability in time
   3. time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
   4. particular moment or hour
   5. measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time
   6. numerical indication of a particular moment in time
3. (geology) era

• kala
• waktu

masa

1. words to express distrust and rhetorical in nature
2. express the speaker's doubt or disbelief about something that they have just heard, learned, or noticed

• masak

Ultimately from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “a weight of gold”).

masa

1. (archaeology) unit of measurement of weight for gold and silver

• “masa” 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.

masa

1. Rōmaji transcription of まさ

From Sephardi Hebrew מַצָּה (masá), from Biblical Hebrew מַצָּה (maṩå).

• IPA^(key): /maˈsa/

masa f (Hebrew spelling מצה, plural masot)

1. matzah
2. dough

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasːa]

masa f (4th declension)

1. (physics) mass
2. mass, quantity, amount
3. mass, body, bulk, blob
4. (in the plural) the masses
5. (genitive plural) mass, large-scale

Probably from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

• IPA^(key): /masa/
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ma.sə]

    • Audio (Malaysia):

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  • (Baku) IPA^(key): [ma.sa]

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• Rhymes: -sa, -a
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

masa (Jawi spelling ماس, plural masa-masa)

1. Time:

   Synonyms: waktu, kala

   1. Inevitable passing of events.
   2. Quantity of availability in time.
   3. Time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
   4. Particular moment or hour.
   5. Measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
   6. Numerical indication of a particular moment in time.

masa (Jawi spelling ماس, formal form semasa)

1. (informal) During the time that; when.

   Synonyms: waktu, bila

   Masa aku tulis karangan tu, aku tak ingat pun kena lebih daripada 250 patah perkataan.

   When I was writing the essay, I didn't know that it had to be longer than 250 words.

• “masa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hasaq.

masa

1. to sharpen

masa

1. illative singular of mii

• maset
• maste (simple past)
• mast (past participle)

masa

1. inflection of mase:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• mase

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːsɑ/

masa (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative masa/mas)

1. to nag
   • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge:

     […] sidan tok han til aa masa um ei Gullkedja, som han visste, ho skulde hava; han vilde kaupa da Halsgullet, um da var aldri so dyrt […]

     […] then he started nagging about a gold chain, that he knew she had; he wanted to buy that necklace, no matter the price […]

• “masa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ma.sa/
• Rhymes: -sa
• Homophones: māsa, māṣa
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

masa

1. alternative spelling of māsa (“month; time”)

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

masa

1. certainly not
2. it is impossible

• Javanese: ꦩꦁꦱ (mangsa)
• → Balinese: ᬫᬲ (masa)

• "masa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

masa

1. deer

• massa (Middle Polish)

Learned borrowing from Latin māssa.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1534.^[4] Compare Silesian masa.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masa f (related adjective masowy)

1. (countable) mass (shapeless substance that is flexible and allows itself to be formed)

   Synonym: bryła

2. (uncountable, colloquial) mass (large number or amount)

   Synonym: ogrom

3. (countable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter)
4. (electricity) ground (point against which potentials are measured in an electrical or electronic system)
5. (countable) mass (large object or objects seen in faint outline)
6. (uncountable, obsolete, property law) property remaining after the deceased testator or after the bankruptcy of a merchant or industrialist, subject to division among creditors or heirs
7. (obsolete, uncountable, metallurgy) a type of greasy sand used in the production of steel castings
8. (countable, obsolete, biliards) a billiard cue with a wide butt on the thinner end for better hitting the ball
9. (countable, Middle Polish) mixture

   Synonym: mieszanina

10. (in the plural) masses (people; especially a large number of people; the general population)

• → Kashubian: masa
• → Slovincian: masa

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), masa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 33 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

• masa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• masy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• masa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “MASA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.07.2019
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 892

Borrowed from French masser.

a masa (third-person singular present masează, past participle masat) 1st conjugation

1. to massage

• masaj
• masare
• masat (past participle of masa)

masa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of masă

màsa f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀са)

1. mass

• IPA^(key): /máːsa/

mȃsa f

1. mass (large quantity; sum)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	mása
gen. sing.	máse
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mása	mási	máse
genitive (rodȋlnik)	máse	más	más
dative (dajȃlnik)	mási	másama	másam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	máso	mási	máse
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	mási	másah	másah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	máso	másama	másami

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa
• Homophone: (Latin America) maza

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

masa f (plural masas)

1. (food) dough

   Synonym: pasta

2. (physics) mass
3. drove (large amount)

   en masa ― in droves

• → Bikol Central: masa
• → English: masa
• → Tagalog: masa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

masa

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

• “masa”, 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

From a dialectal masa (“move or work slowly”). Probably sound symbolic.

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːsa/
• Rhymes: -²ɑːsa

masa (present masar, preterite masade, supine masat, imperative masa)

1. (reflexive) to move slowly

   Jag masade mig ur sängen

   I dragged myself out of bed

• masa sig in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• Maas

Borrowed from Spanish masa, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ)

1. dough
2. people; the masses

Borrowed from Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मास (māsa). Compare Tausug masa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. time; epoch; season

   Synonyms: panahon, salukoy, sagsag

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masa (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to read

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maˈsaʔ/ [mɐˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masâ (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)

1. Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to make something wet

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

• sama, amas, asam

Borrowed from Malay masa.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /masa/ [maˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ma‧sa

masa (Sulat Sūg spelling مَسَ)

1. era, epoch, age

   Synonym: jaman

From Ottoman Turkish ماسه, borrowed from Bulgarian маса (masa, “table”), from Romanian masă.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [mɑˈsɑ]

• Audio:

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masa (definite accusative masayı, plural masalar)

1. table

Compare Italian massa.

masa f (plural mase)

1. mass

masa

1. too much
2. very