maa

Imitative.

maa

1. A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.

maa (third-person singular simple present maas, present participle maaing, simple past and past participle maaed)

1. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
   • 1992, Josepha Sherman, A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore (page 126)

     Now it's even worse! The goat maas all the time. And the smell...

   • 2000, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

     Now the twins started to cry and Malachy clung to Mam, sobbing. The cows mooed, the sheep maaed […]

• AAM, AMA, Ama, aam, ama

maa

1. hand

• Barunggam body parts

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Finnish maa and Karelian mua.

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. land
3. ground
4. country
5. countryside

• isamaa
• välismaa
• õueaiamaa
• maakond

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Possibly, borrowed from an Indo-Aryan language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂s (“great”).[1] Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua, Komi-Zyrian му (mu), Udmurt му (mu), Mansi ма̄ (mā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː/, [ˈmɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: maa

maa

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

   Voi mennä maalle. One can go to the countryside.

   Voi mennä maahan. One can go into the country. (e.g. to Spain)

   Panin sen maahan. I put it on the ground.

   Hän on maalla. He is in the countryside.

   Hän on maassa. He is in the country. (within the national boundary).

   Hän on maassa. He is on the ground (e.g. after being hit).

7. (card games) suit

Due to the multiple meanings of maa, case forms are used to distinguish meanings.

• Prolative: maitse

• adjectives: maallinen, maaton, mainen
• nouns: maailma, maalainen, maasto, maatamo
• verbs: maadoittaa, maata, maatua

• IPA^(key): /maː/

maa

1. five

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

maa

1. water

• Herrmann Jungraithmayr, ‎Daniel Barreteau, ‎Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 81

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua.

maa (genitive maan, partitive maata)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

maa 

1. mother

màá (plural màá)

1. mother

• tàá

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua.

maa (genitive maa, partitive maat)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

• maailma
• maamuna

• "maa" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

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

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

• maakund