mazat

Inherited from Old Czech mazati, from Proto-Slavic *mazati.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmazat]
• Rhymes: -azat
• Hyphenation: ma‧zat

mazat impf (perfective namazat or pomazat or smazat or umazat)

1. to lubricate
2. to spread (cover something with a thin layer of some substance)
3. to smear, to dirty, to sully

   Synonyms: špinit, znečišťovat

4. to scribble, to scrawl, to daub (to write, draw or paint unskillfully)
5. (informal) to bribe, to grease someone's palm

   Synonyms: podplácet, uplácet

6. to erase
7. (colloquial) to hightail it, to skedaddle

   Synonym: pelášit

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