mazer

• maser

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by derivative mæseren), from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from the same Germanic source.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪzə/
• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:

     Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

• mazer bowl

• Marez, Meraz

mazer

1. Alternative form of maser

• mazre, maser, mazar, madre

Borrowed from Frankish *masur (“maple”).

mazer m (oblique plural mazers, nominative singular mazers, nominative plural mazer)

1. maple
2. large drinking bowl made maple; mazer bowl

• Middle French: madré
  • French: madré
• → English: maser, masere, mazer, mazar
  • English: mazer (obsolete, archaic)
• ⇒ Old French: mazerin, mazelin, madelin, maderin
  • Middle French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
    • French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
  • → English: maselin, maseline, maselyn
  • → English: mazerin, mazarin
    • English: mazerin
  • → Medieval Latin: mazerinus, maserinus, mazelinus, maderinus