ma

ma (plural mas)

1. (astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.

The sound, which parents interpret as a reference to themselves, is very commonly made by infants.

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

ma (plural mas) (not generally used in the plural)

1. (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama

• Often capitalized when used to refer to a specific person.

Hey, Ma, I’d like you to meet my friend Jamie.

• pa

Abbreviation.

ma

1. May

• Usually capitalised as Ma.

From my

ma

1. (dialectal, informal) Alternative spelling of my

From Chinese 嘛 (ma, “of course!”).[1]

ma (Singlish, Singapore, colloquial)

1. Alternative form of mah
   • 1998 April 24, viken, “tcs shows”, in sg.rec.tv, Usenet:

     Singlish is acceptable in Singapore mah

   • 2015 April 17, Jalelah Abu Baker, “What's the difference between 'lah' and 'lor': Poet Gwee Li Sui's take on nuances of Singlish goes viral”, in The Straits Times‎:

     I dun have mah.

   • 2017 April 30, Kim Hoh, Wong, “It Changed My Life: Migrant worker goes from painting condos to boss of own company”, in The Straits Times‎:

     "I was already 32, so must get married mah," he says, using the Singlish word often used to express something which is obvious.

• 'am, A&M, A. & M., A. M., A.M., AM, Am, Am., a.m., am

ma

1. and

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

ma

1. mother

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

ma (plural ma's)

1. mom, mother

• mamma
• moeder

• pa

• ouma

• IPA^(key): [and]

ma

1. and

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• mà, Maa, Mann, Mànn, mo

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

ma m (Gressoney, Issime)

1. man
2. husband

• “ma” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

má

1. to love

• Cristiane Benjamin Santos, Aspectos morfossintáticos dos pronomes pessoais em Anaan (2007)
• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

From Latin magis. Compare Daco-Romanian mai.

ma

1. more

From Italian ma.

ma

1. but, yet

• mamá

ma f (plural mas)

1. mother

   Synonym: madre

• IPA^(key): [màꜜà]

ma

1. sea cow

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

ma

1. my

ma

1. good!

ma

1. that
2. if

• mar

ma

1. feminine singular of mon

ma m

1. (Thirteen Communities) moon

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

ma

1. bee (insect)

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• Rhymes: -aː

ma f (plural ma's, diminutive maatje n)

1. (informal) mother

• mama
• moeder

• oma
• pa

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

ma (genitive mu, partitive mind)

1. I; short form of mina

From maanantai.

ma

1. Abbreviation of maanantai (“Monday”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ/, [ˈmɑ]

ma

1. (personal, archaic, poetic) I

• minä (standard Finnish)
• mä (colloquial)
• mie (dialectal)
• miä (dialectal)
• mää (dialectal)
• mnää (dialectal)

From Old French ma, from Latin mea.

• IPA^(key): /ma/

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ma f

1. feminine singular of mon

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

• “ma” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin magis.

ma

1. but

ma

1. 2nd-person singular pronoun: you
2. 2nd-person plural pronoun: you
3. 2nd-person singular possessive pronoun: your
4. 2nd-person plural possessive pronoun: your

ma

1. in, at

Probably related to más.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒ]

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ma

1. today
   • 1975, Imre Kertész, Sorstalanság, Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó (2016), →ISBN, page 5:

     Ma nem mentem iskolába. Azaz mentem, de csak, hogy hazakéredzkedjem az osztályfőnökömtől.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

ma (plural mák)

1. today

• jobb ma egy veréb, mint holnap egy túzok
• mai
• most

• más

Borrowed from French mais, Italian ma, Spanish mas from Latin magis, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ma/

ma

1. but

• sed (archaic)

From Italian ma. Compare Spanish mas.

ma

1. but

ma

1. but

From Latin magis.

ma

1. but
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

     Ma sulo i tuoi bai uoci, anema meîa,

     But only your beautiful eyes, oh soul of mine

From Latin magis.[1]

• Rhymes: -a

ma

1. but

• però

ma f

1. Abbreviation of mamma.

ma

1. (informal, emphatic) Indicates emotion or emphasis.

   Ma che carino! - Oh, how cute!

2. (informal) Used to introduce a new topic or a question.

   Ma...tu sei di Roma? - So...you're from Rome?

ma

1. Rōmaji transcription of ま
2. Rōmaji transcription of マ

ma

1. only

ma

1. daddy; father (term of address)

ma

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

From Old Spanish mas, from Latin magis.

ma (Latin spelling)

1. but

   Synonym: ama

2. why

• minā

See etymology at Finnish me.

ma

1. I; first person pronoun, referring to the speaker

• sinā, sa
• tämā, ta

Renāte Blumberga, Tapio Mäkeläinen, Karl Pajusalu (2013), Lībieši: vēsture, valoda un kultūra, Rīga: Līvõ Kultūr sidām, ISBN 978-9984-49-730-3

• IPA^(key): [ma]

ma

1. third-person singular present of měś

ma (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄚ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 么
2. Pinyin transcription of 嗎, 吗
3. Pinyin transcription of 嘛
4. Pinyin transcription of 㕰

ma

1. Nonstandard spelling of mā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of má.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mà.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

ma

1. milk

ma

1. Alternative form of man

• “man (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

From Latin magis. Compare Italian ma, French mais.

ma

1. but

From English my.

ma

1. my

ma

1. (Mooring Dialect) with

From Proto-Nguni *-ímá, from Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

-má

1. to stand

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ma

1. but

From Proto-Germanic *maiz. Cognate with Old Frisian mā, Old Saxon mēr, Old Dutch mēr, Old High German mēr, Old Norse meir, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍃 (mais).

• IPA^(key): /mɑː/

mā

1. more

   Ne magon menn āgan land þē mā þe þā sǣ oþþe þone heofon.

   People can't own land any more than they can own the sea or the sky.

mā

1. more (indeclinable; often + genitive)
   • The Life of Saint Margaret

     Sēo hālġe fǣmne him andswarode and cwæþ, "Nis mē ālīefed þæt iċ þē tō seċġe, for þon þū neart nā wierðe mīne stefne tō ġehīerenne. Godes bebodu iċ wille ġehīeran and ġecȳðan. And þū, dēofol, ādumba nū, for þon þe iċ nylle nān word mā of þīnum mūðe ġehīeran."

     The holy virgin answered him and said, "I’m not allowed to tell you, because you don’t deserve to hear my voice. God’s commandments are what I want to hear and impart. And you, demon, be quiet now, because I don't want to hear one more word out of your mouth."

mā

1. more

From Latin mea.

ma f (masculine mon, plural mes)

1. my (first-person singular possessive)

• French: ma

ma

1. one

ma

1. Alternative spelling of má

ma

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

ma

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

• IPA^(key): /maː/

mā

1. Subjunctive marker

   Nechilwijket ma nikinkwepili musta

   They told me to return it to them tomorrow

   Tikajkawat ma seseya pal tikwat

   We leave it to cool down so we can eat it

2. Clipping of maka. (Negative imperative marker)

   Ma shina kiuni!

   Don't say that!

• The particle ma helps disambiguating many of the subjunctive forms from the present indicative or imperative forms.

-má

1. Clipping of -maka.

ma

1. away

ma

1. if

• IPA^(key): /ma/

ma

1. third-person singular present indicative of mieć

   Andrzej ma 18 lat. ― Andrzej is 18 years old.

ma

1. Alternative form of moja.

• ma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ma

1. and
2. because

ma

1. with

• IPA^(key): /ma/, /mə/

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

ma

1. my

   Synonym: wir

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

ma

1. if

   Ma tha thu ’g iarrraidh sin… ― If you want that…

• If followed by the future tense, the relative future tense is used.

  Dèan e, ma thogras tu.

  Do it, if you want.

• In the conditional tense, instead of ma, nan/nam is used in positive sentences and mura in negative ones.

• IPA^(key): /ma/
• Hyphenation: m‧a

1. bah, whatever

1. Placed at the beginning of a sentence to add intensity and surprise

   Ma kako?! ― How?!

   Ma gdje? ― Where in the world...?

   Ma da? ― Really?

   Ma to je on! ― That's definitely him!

1. Placed at the beginning of a sentence to express dismissal and indignation

   Ma ne. ― No way.

   Ma daj. ― Oh come on.

   Ma kakvi. ― Impossible.

1. Used to emphasise sarcasm

   Ma da!/Ma svakako!/Ma naravno! ― Yeah, sure.

   Ma nemoj. ― Oh you don't say?

   Ma nikad niste vi krivi. ― Of course it can never be your fault.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma.

ma

1. not, no; negative particle

• M. Prins, A Grammar of rGyalrong, Jiǎomùzú (Kyom-kyo) Dialects: A Web of Relations (2016) (and earlier A Web of Relations: A Grammar of rGyalrong, Jiǎomùzú (Kyom-kyo) Dialects, 2011)

• mňa

• IPA^(key): [ma]

ma

1. genitive/accusative of ja

mà

1. water

• 1999, Michael Bryant, Aspects of Tirmaga Grammar (in notes, as ma)
• Michael Bryant, A Brief Grammar of the Suri Language (2011) (as mà)

From Proto-Nguni *-ímá, from Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

-ma

1. to stand
2. to stop, to wait

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ma

1. and

ma

1. with

ma

1. Alternative form of ma'a

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

ma

1. (Toaripi, Kaipi, Sepoe) water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

ma

1. not

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe.

ma

1. earth
2. ground
3. soil
4. land, country, region
5. state

• kodima
• kosmosma
• kuivma
• linma
• sinižma
• tagama
• veraz ma
• mail'm
• makar
• makondi
• makovandez
• maleveduz'pird
• mapiduz'pird
• mapolišk
• mapähkim
• maröunanvarjoičii
• maujui
• mavezieläi
• mavoi
• manaluine
• manedustai
• mankaivai
• manmäričii
• manparemboituz
• manpidäi
• manradai
• manrehkaiduz
• mansüvüded
• mantedo
• manvägituz
• pämante

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “грунт, держава, земля, почва, свет, страна”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [maː˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *-maː (“genie; phantom; ghost; spirit”)

(classifier con) ma

1. ghost (spirit appearing after death)

• hồn ma
• ma chay
• đám ma
• thây ma

Sino-Vietnamese word from 魔.

(classifier con) ma

1. (archaic) a demon
2. (archaic) magic

• quỷ

• ác ma
• tà ma ngoại đạo
• ma quỷ
• ma thuật
• ma đạo
• ma giáo
• ma nữ
• ma vương
• ma giới
• ma nhân
• ma đế
• ma quái
• ma lực

ma

1. (indefinite) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)

ma

1. water

• Bernard Comrie, ‎Lucía Golluscio, Language Contact and Documentation (2015, ISBN 3110393557
• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907)

• m-

ma

1. my

   Ma rahe hakaya.

   My brother runs.

   Natu ma tatutuma iji minajara? [1]

   Granny, have you not seen my wives?

2. me, accusative of iné

   Ma hube abuae.

   A snake bit me.

   Ihi ma isiko naonahara? [2]

   Don't you come with me?

• Focus, chapter 8: Warao and Urarina
• Languages with Wilf, Comparison: Warao vs. Warray

ma

1. me (first-person singular object pronoun)

From Proto-Nguni *-ímá, from Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

-ma^?

1. (intransitive) to halt
2. (intransitive) to stop

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Rhymes: -ma

ma

1. we; us (first-person plural personal pronoun)

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ma˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ma¹
• Hyphenation: ma

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“dog”). Cognate with Thai หมา (mǎa), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩣ, Lao ໝາ (mā), Lü ᦖᦱ (ṁaa), Tai Dam ꪢꪱ, Shan မႃ (mǎa), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥴ (maa¹), Aiton မႃ, Ahom 𑜉𑜠 (ma), Saek หม่า.

ma (old orthography ma, Sawndip forms 𬌫, 獁, 𬍄, 䭾, 庅, 犸, 𭸱)

1. dog

From Proto-Tai *ʰmaːᴬ (“to come”). Cognate with Thai มา (maa), Northern Thai ᨾᩣ (ma), Lao ມາ (mā), Lü ᦙᦱ (maa), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥰ (maa²), Shan မႃး (máa), Aiton မႃ, Ahom 𑜉𑜠 (ma) or 𑜉𑜡 (maa) or 𑜉𑜡𑜠 (maaa).

ma (old orthography ma, Sawndip forms 庲, 么, 麻, 𮜃, 𫹞, 駡)

1. to come back; to return

• ma

From Proto-Nguni *-ímá, from Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

-má

1. (intransitive) to stand, to be standing
2. (intransitive) to stand still, to not move
3. (intransitive) to stop, to come to a standstill, to halt

• -mi
• isimo
• umumo

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “ma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ISBN 0 85494 027 8: “ma”