mase

See also: Mase, masé, másé, masę, maše, mäse, and måse

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /meɪz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪz

Etymology 1

Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.

Verb

mase (third-person singular simple present mases, present participle masing, simple past and past participle mased)

1. To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.

Etymology 2

Noun

mase (plural mases)

1. Obsolete form of maze.

Anagrams

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, EMAS, MSAE, Mesa, Same, eams, meas, meas., mesa, same, seam

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasɛ]

Noun

mase

1. locative singular of maso

Danish

Etymology

From West Frisian maschen, from Old Frisian *māsk, from Proto-West Germanic *maisk, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz (“mash, mixture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːsə/, [ˈmæːsə]

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)

1. crush
2. squash
3. crunch
4. press, squeeze
5. jostle
6. slog
7. struggle

Japanese

Romanization

mase

1. Rōmaji transcription of ませ

Manchu

Romanization

mase

1. Romanization of ᠮᠠᠰᡝ

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French Meuse

Noun

māse f

1. Meuse (a river)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Maas

Further reading

• “mase”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

Probably from masen; further etymology is disputed.

Alternative forms

• maze, masse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːz(ə)/

Noun

mase (plural mases)

2. Something that causes bewilderment or mystery (e.g. a wild fancy; a confused notion)
3. Something that causes misleadingness or chicanery.
4. (rare, later ME) A maze or labyrinth.

Descendants

• English: maze
• Scots: maze
• Yola: mize

References

• “māse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

Noun

mase

1. Alternative form of messe

Etymology 3

Noun

mase

1. Alternative form of mace (“mace”)

Etymology 4

Probably from amased.

Verb

mase

1. Alternative form of masen

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mase f

1. table, desk

Synonyms

• doşk
• mêze

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present tense maser, simple past masa or maset or maste, past participle masa or maset or mast)

1. to nag

References

• “mase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of masa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maisā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.se/, [ˈmɑː.ze]

Noun

māse f (nominative plural māsan)

1. titmouse

Declension

Declension of mase (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	māse	māsan
accusative	māsan	māsan
genitive	māsan	māsena
dative	māsan	māsum

Derived terms

• spiċmāse

Descendants

• Middle English: mose
  • ⇒ Middle English: titmose
    • English: titmouse

Spanish

Verb

mase

1. inflection of masar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧se

Etymology 1

Related to Persian ماهی (mâhi).

Noun

mase

1. fish
2. (astronomy, astrology) Pisces

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish masa.

Noun

mase

1. table