masa

masa (uncountable) (More fully, masa paper)

1. (art) A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting

From Spanish masa (“dough”).

masa (uncountable)

1. (US) maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.

• -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Sama, aams, amas, maas

From Bulgarian ма̀са (màsa), from Romanian masă.

• IPA^(key): [mɑˈsɑ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧sa

masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)

1. (somewhat high style) table

   Synonym: stol

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• Rhymes: -asa

masa f

1. mass (a large body of individuals, especially persons)

   masa lidí — mass of people

• masový

• masiv
• masivní

masa

1. genitive singular of maso
2. nominative plural of maso
3. accusative plural of maso
4. vocative plural of maso

• masa in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• masa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.

masa f

1. Mass

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese massa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin massa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese massa and Spanish masa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa̝/

masa f (plural masas)

1. dough
   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 123:

     logo todos ordenaron que fesesen as paandeiras o pan do dia, triigo de tres onças, ben apostado e ben linpo e de boa masa

     after this everyone ordered the bakers to make the daily bread, wheat of three ounces, well prepared and very clean and of good dough

   Synonym: amoado

2. mortar

   Synonyms: argamasa, morteiro

3. (Physics) mass

• amasar
• maseira

• “massa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “massa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “masa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “masa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “masa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

masa

1. wing (body part of an animal)

From Old Norse masa, from Proto-Germanic *masōną. Cognate with English maze.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːsa/
• Rhymes: -aːsa

masa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative masaði, supine masað)

1. (intransitive) to chat, to chatter

• sama

From Malay masa, possibly from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

masa (plural masa-masa, first-person possessive masaku, second-person possessive masamu, third-person possessive masanya)

1. period (history: period of time seen as coherent entity)
2. period (length of time)
3. period (length of time during which something repeats)
4. time (inevitable passing of events)
5. time (quantity of availability in time)
6. time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
7. time (particular moment or hour)
8. time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
9. time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)

• kala
• waktu

• “masa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

masa

1. Rōmaji transcription of まさ

• ماس‎

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /masə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /masa/
• Rhymes: -asə, -sə, -ə

masa

1. time (inevitable passing of events)
2. time (quantity of availability in time)
3. time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
4. time (particular moment or hour)
5. time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
6. time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)

• kala / کالا‎
• waktu / وقتو‎

masa

1. illative singular of mii

• maset
• maste (simple past)
• mast (past participle)

masa

1. simple past of mase
2. past participle of mase

• mase

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːsɑ/

masa (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative mas/masa)

1. to nag
   • 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge:

     […] sidan tok han til aa masa um ei Gullkedja, som han visste, ho skulde hava; han vilde kaupa da Halsgullet, um da var aldri so dyrt […]

     […] then he started nagging about a gold chain, that he knew she had; he wanted to buy that necklace, no matter the price […]

• “masa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.sa/

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masa f

1. (physics) mass

• masa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French masser.

a masa (third-person singular present masează, past participle masat) 1st conj.

1. to massage

• masaj
• masare
• masat (past participle of masa)

masa f

1. definite nominative and accusative singular of masă

màsa f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀са)

1. mass

• IPA^(key): /ˈmáːsa/
• Tonal orthography: mȃsa

mása f (genitive máse, nominative plural máse)

1. mass (large quantity; sum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasa/
• Homophone: maza (non-Castilian)

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

masa f (plural masas)

1. (food) dough

   Synonym: pasta

2. (physics) mass
3. drove (large amount)

   en masa ― in droves

• amasar
• masar
• masilla
• masita

• masivo

See the etymology of the main entry.

masa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of masar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of masar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of masar.

• “masa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Borrowed from Spanish masa.

masa

1. dough
2. people; the masses

Borrowed from Bulgarian маса (masa, “table”), from Romanian masă.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [masa]

masa (definite accusative masayı, plural masalar)

1. table

Compare Italian massa

masa f (plural mase)

1. mass

masa

1. too much
2. very