maha

See also: mahā and māha

English

Etymology

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Noun

maha

  1. (archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.
    • Richard Lydekker
      The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

References
  • maha in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Breton

Verb

maha

  1. to press

Ese

Noun

maha

  1. pig

References
  • Jim and Judy Parlier Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Estonian

Etymology

Irregular illative of maa (“earth, ground”).

Adverb

maha

  1. down
    Tule maha!
    Come down!
  2. into the ground
    Me panime eile kartulid maha.
    We planted the potatoes yesterday. (lit. "We put the potatoes into the ground yesterday".)
  3. off
    Kütt võttis rebaselt naha maha.
    The hunter skinned the fox. (lit. "The hunter took the skin off of the fox".)

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maha, from a Germanic language, compare Proto-Germanic *magô, Swedish mage. Cognates include Karelian maha, Votic maha, Ludian maha.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑhɑ/, [ˈmɑɦɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑhɑ
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ha

Noun

maha

  1. belly

Usage notes

Maha is often used when talking about both the outer and the inner part and vatsa when talking about the inner, but especially in speech the usage of these words is often very mixed up.

Declension
Inflection of maha (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative maha mahat
genitive mahan mahojen
partitive mahaa mahoja
illative mahaan mahoihin
singular plural
nominative maha mahat
accusative nom. maha mahat
gen. mahan
genitive mahan mahojen
mahainrare
partitive mahaa mahoja
inessive mahassa mahoissa
elative mahasta mahoista
illative mahaan mahoihin
adessive mahalla mahoilla
ablative mahalta mahoilta
allative mahalle mahoille
essive mahana mahoina
translative mahaksi mahoiksi
instructive — mahoin
abessive mahatta mahoitta
comitative — mahoineen

Synonyms

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

Karelian

Noun

maha

  1. stomach

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀫𑀳 (Brahmi script)
  • मह (Devanagari script)
  • মহ (Bengali script)
  • මහ (Sinhalese script)
  • မဟ (Burmese script)
  • มห (Thai script)
  • ᨾᩉ (Tai Tham script)
  • មហ (Khmer script)

Noun

maha m

  1. religious festival

Declension
Declension table of "maha" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)mahomahā
Accusative (second)mahaṃmahe
Instrumental (third)mahenamahehi or mahebhi
Dative (fourth)mahassa or mahāya or mahatthaṃmahānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)mahasmā or mahamhā or mahāmahehi or mahebhi
Genitive (sixth)mahassamahānaṃ
Locative (seventh)mahasmiṃ or mahamhi or mahemahesu
Vocative (calling)mahamahā

Adjective

maha

  1. masculine and neuter vocative singular of mahant

Tahitian
Tahitian cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : maha

Numeral

maha

  1. four
    nā taʻata/tāʻata e maha ― four people

Derived terms
  • maha ʻahuru

See also
  • toʻomāha

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German mahhōn, from Proto-Germanic *makōną; akin to German machen or Yiddish מאַכן‎ (makhn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”).

Verb

maha

  1. (transitive) to do or make
    No bo, wos kon yhy maha? ― Well then, what can I do?

Conjugation

maha is a weak verb ending in -a

Please create a template for Vilamovian weak verbs ending in -a like maha, I don't know how to design them. These verbs are regular and follow a common pattern, here the pattern is design around the root -mah-

Present tense

yhy mah

dü mahst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr maha

jyr maht

zej maha

Preterite

yhy maht

dü mahtst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr mahta

jyr maht

zej mahta

Perfect

Used auxiliary: hon (have)


yhy ho gymaht

dü höst gymaht

har / zej / ejs höt gymaht

wjyr hon gymaht

jyr hot gymaht

zej hon gymaht

Infinitive

maha

Past participle

gymaht

References

A GRAMMAR OF WYMYSORYS, Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król, Duke University, Slavic and East European Language Resource Center – SEELRC, 2016

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