mast

See also Mast, and måst

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: mäst, IPA: /mɑːst/, SAMPA: /mA:st/

• (US) IPA: /mæst/
• Homophone: massed

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːst, -æst

Etymology 1

Old English mæst, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mast- (“board”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

1. A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for examples, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.

Derived terms

• foremast
• mainmast
• mizzenmast

Related terms

• boom
• crow's nest
• flagpole
• spar
• top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop
• tower

Translations

support of a sail

Armenian: կայմ (hy) (kaym) Basque: haga (eu) Breton: gwern (br) f. Catalan: pal (ca) m. Czech: stěžeň (cs) m. Danish: mast (da) c. Dutch: mast (nl) m. Esperanto: masto (eo) Faroese: mastur (fo) f. Finnish: masto (fi) French: mât (fr) m. German: Mast (de) m. Greenlandic: napparut (kl) Hungarian: árboc (hu) Icelandic: mastur (is) n., siglutré (is) n.

Italian: albero (it) Latin: malus (la) m. Macedonian: јарбол (mk) (járbol) m., катарка (mk) (kátarka) f. Polish: maszt (pl) Portuguese: mastro (pt) Romanian: catarg (ro), arbore (ro) Russian: мачта (ru) (mačta) f. Samoan: fanā (sm) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јарбол (sh) m. Roman: jarbol (sh) m. Slovak: sťažeň (sk) m. Spanish: mástil (es) m. Swedish: mast (sv) c. Volapük: maat (vo)

Verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

1. To supply and fit a mast to a ship

Translations

supply and fit a mast to a ship

Italian: alberare (it), inalberare (it)

See also

• column
• pole
• pylon
• tower

Etymology 2

Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”), mæsten (“to fatten, feed”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

1. The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.

Translations

the fruit of forest-trees

Norwegian: olden (no) m. (archaic)

Anagrams

• ASTM
• ATMs
• mats, Mats
• tams

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь.

Noun

mast f.

1. ointment

Derived terms

• mastička f.

Related terms

• mastit
• mastný
• mastnota

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑst

• Audio

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Noun

mast m. (plural masten, diminutive mastje)

1. mast

Derived terms

• zendmast

Anagrams

• stam, tams

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Kurdish

Noun

mast m.

1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)

This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at yoghurt. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see mast in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

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Middle French

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *mastaz

Noun

mast m. (plural mastz)

1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

• French: mât

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Norwegian

Etymology 1

From Low German mast (“mast”)

Noun

mast m. or f. (definite singular masta/masten; indefinite plural master; definite plural mastene)

1. mast

Derived terms

• fokkemast
• stormast
• radiomast
• lysmast

Synonyms

• stang

References

• “mast” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

Etymology 2

Verb

mast

1. Past participle of mase

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь.

Noun

mast f. (Cyrillic spelling маст)

1. grease
2. ointment
3. fat
4. lard
5. schmaltz

Declension

    declension of mast

	singular	plural
nominative	mast	masti
genitive	masti	masti
dative	masti	mastima
accusative	mast	masti
vocative	masti	masti
locative	mašću / masti	mastima
instrumental	masti	mastima

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Swedish

Noun

mast c.

1. mast, tall slim structure

Declension

Declension of mast

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mast	masten	master	masterna
genitive	masts	mastens	masters	masternas