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má

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ma"

Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmaː]
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Verb

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má

  1. third-person singular present indicative of mít

Pronoun

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má

  1. inflection of můj:
    1. feminine singular nominative/vocative
    2. neuter plural nominative/accusative/vocative

Faroese

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má

  1. first/third-person singular present of mega
    eg má fara
    I have to go

Galician

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Adjective

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má

  1. feminine singular of mao

Ibino

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má

  1. love, like

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Ibuoro

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má

  1. love, like

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Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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See mega.

Verb

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má

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of mega

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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má (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative máði, supine máð)

  1. to blur, to efface [with accusative]
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Anagrams

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish mag, from Proto-Celtic *magos.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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má f (genitive singular má, nominative plural mánna)

  1. plain (expanse of land with relatively low relief), champaign (open countryside, or an area of open countryside)
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Declension of má (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative má mánna
vocative a mhá a mhánna
genitive má mánna
dative má mánna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mhá na mánna
genitive na má na mánna
dative leis an má
don mhá 		leis na mánna
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton ma, mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

Conjunction

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má (triggers lenition)

  1. if
    Má chreideann sé an scéal sin tá sé saonta go maith. ― If he believes that story, he’s pretty gullible.
  2. even though
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.
      When he died, even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her.
Usage notes
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  • Used in factual conditionals with the present or past indicative and takes the independent form of verbs that distinguish between dependent and independent forms.
Synonyms
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  • dá (in counterfactual conditionals)
  • mura (in negative sentences; ‘unless’)
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Etymology 3

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

Preposition

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má

  1. about, around
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of má
radical lenition eclipsis
má mhá not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 64

Itu Mbon Uzo

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má

  1. love, like

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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má (ma2, Zhuyin ㄇㄚˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吔
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗍
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犘
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痲／痳
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菺
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔴／麻
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟆, 蟇
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麻

Nawdm

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Pronoun

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má

  1. I (subject), my

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Object and vocative pronouns are written as a suffix -ma.

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂. Cognate with Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “surely, truly”), Sanskrit स्म (sma).

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má (triggers lenition)

  1. if
    Synonym: dïa
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13a12
      Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.
      If there is anything of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19c20
      Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.
      If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

Usage notes

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Followed by the present indicative if the condition is in the past or present; by the present subjunctive if the condition is in the future.

Derived terms

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  • mani (“if not, unless”)

Descendants

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  • Irish: má
  • Manx: my
  • Scottish Gaelic: ma

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Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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má

  1. first/third-person singular present active indicative of mega
Descendants
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  • Icelandic: má
  • Faroese: má
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: må
  • Norwegian Bokmål: må
  • Old Swedish: mā
  • Danish: må

Etymology 2

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Noun

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má

  1. indefinite accusative singular of már

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese maa, from Latin malam.

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  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: má

Adjective

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má f sg

  1. feminine singular of mau

Ukwa

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má

  1. love, like

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Usaghade

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má

  1. love, like

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Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Vietic *-maːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] maː³ ("cheek"), Arem umæːʔ ("gills"), Proto-Palaungic *cəmaːʔ (“cheek”) (whence Riang [Sak] sᵊmɑʔ²), Proto-Nicobarese *samaː (whence Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] shama (“jaw”)) and Bondo ǰama ("jaw").

This item might be an infixed form (nominalizing *-m-) of the root *ca(ː)ʔ (“to eat”), as suggested in Sidwell (2018).

Noun

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(classifier cái) má • (𦟐)

  1. (anatomy) cheek
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Etymology 2

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媽 (“mother”, SV: ma), ultimately a nursery word. Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895) directly annotates this as kêu theo tiếng Khách ("way of calling from Chinese") and it was also often paired with tía (another Chinese loan) to form tía má.

Noun

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má • (媽, 𦟐)

  1. (Southern Vietnam) mother; mom
    Synonyms: mạ, mẹ, mợ, u, bầm, đẻ
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Etymology 3

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From Proto-Vietic *s-maːʔ, whence also mạ (“rice seedlings”), the form used in isolation.

Noun

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má • (𥡗)

  1. (only in compounds) rice seedlings
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