mast

See also Mast, and måst

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: mäst, IPA: /mɑːst/, X-SAMPA: /mA:st/
• (US, Canada, Northern England) IPA: /mæst/
• Homophone: massed (/mæst/)

• 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 example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.

Derived terms

• foremast
• mainmast
• mizzenmast
• before the mast

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)
• Belarusian: мачта (be) (máčta) f, шчогла (be) (ščóhla) f
• Breton: gwern (br) f
• Bulgarian: мачта (bg) (máčta) f
• Catalan: pal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桅 (cmn) (wéi), 桅桿 (cmn), 桅杆 (cmn) (wéigān)

• 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
• Georgian: ანძა (ka) (anja)
• German: Mast (de) m
• Greenlandic: napparut (kl)
• Hungarian: árboc (hu)
• Icelandic: mastur (is) n, siglutré (is) n

• Italian: albero (it)
• Japanese: マスト (ja) (masuto), 帆柱 (ja) (ほばしら, hobashira)
• Jèrriais: mât m
• 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) (máčta) f
• Samoan: fanā (sm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јарбол (sh) m

  Roman: jarbol (sh) m

• Slovak: sťažeň (sk) m, stožiar (sk) m
• Slovene: jambor (sl) m
• Spanish: mástil (es) m
• Swedish: mast (sv) c
• Ukrainian: щогла (uk) (ščóhla) f, мачта (uk) (máčta) f
• Vietnamese: cột buồm (vi)
• 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.

Wikipedia

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.
   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 162:

     He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Chapman

     Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.

   • (Can we date this quote?) South

     Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast.

Translations

the fruit of forest-trees

• Norwegian: olden (no) m (archaic)

Verb

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

1. (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
2. (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
   • 1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33:

     Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.

   • 2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28:

     However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.

   • 2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50:

     Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.

Related terms

• mast cell

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

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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 masts)

1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

• French: mât

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German mast (“mast”).

Noun

mast f, m (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 – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

Etymology 2

Verb

mast

1. Past participle of mase

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Old French

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *mastaz

Noun

mast m (oblique plural masts, nominative singular masts, nominative plural mast)

1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

• French: mât
• Jèrriais: mât

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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