mase

See also: Mase, masé, másé, masę, maše, mäse, and måse

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /meɪz/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪz

Etymology 1

Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.

Verb

mase (third-person singular simple present mases, present participle masing, simple past and past participle mased)

  1. To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.

Etymology 2

Noun

mase (plural mases)

  1. Obsolete form of maze.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmasɛ]

Noun

mase

  1. locative singular of maso

Danish

Etymology 1

From West Frisian maschen, from Old Frisian *māsk, from Proto-West Germanic *maisk, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz (mash, mixture).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːsə/, [ˈmæːsə]

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)

  1. crush
  2. squash
  3. crunch
  4. press, squeeze
  5. jostle
    Synonym: møve

Conjugation

Conjugation of mase
active passive
present maser mases
past masede or maste masede or mastes
infinitive mase mases
imperative mas
participle
present masende
past {{{6}}}
(auxiliary verb mast or maste)
gerund masen

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Icelandic mása

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)

  1. to slog
  2. to struggle
    Synonym: ase

Conjugation

Conjugation of mase
active passive
present maser
past masede or maste masede or mastes
infinitive mase
imperative mas
participle
present masende
past [Term?]
(auxiliary verb mast or maste)
gerund

Derived terms

References

Japanese

Romanization

mase

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ませ

Manchu

Romanization

mase

  1. romanization of ᠮᠠᠰᡝ

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French Meuse

Noun

māse f

  1. Meuse (a river)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: Maas

Further reading

  • mase”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

Probably from masen; further etymology is disputed.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːz(ə)/

Noun

mase (plural mases)

  1. Something that causes bewilderment or mystery (e.g. a wild fancy; a confused notion)
  2. Something that causes misleadingness or chicanery.
  3. (rare, later ME) A maze or labyrinth.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

Noun

mase

  1. alternative form of messe

Etymology 3

Noun

mase

  1. alternative form of mace (mace)

Etymology 4

Verb

mase

  1. alternative form of masen

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mase f

  1. table, desk

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present tense maser, simple past masa or maset or maste, past participle masa or maset or mast)

  1. to nag

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

  1. alternative form of masa

Noun

mase f (definite singular masa, indefinite plural maser, definite plural masene)

  1. A nag (someone who nags, complains).
    Jadå, masa!
    OK, your nag!

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maisā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.se/, [ˈmɑː.ze]

Noun

māse f (nominative plural māsan)

  1. titmouse

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

Derived terms

Descendants

Spanish

Verb

mase

  1. inflection of masar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ma‧se

Etymology 1

Related to Persian ماهی (mâhi).

Noun

mase

  1. fish
  2. (astronomy, astrology) Pisces

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish masa.

Noun

mase

  1. table