mazar

Galician

Etymology

From maza (“mace”). Compare Portuguese maçar and Spanish mazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/, (western) /maˈsaɾ/

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macei, past participle mazado)

1. (transitive) to pound, to hammer (to strike repeatedly)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be pounded before cooking.

2. (transitive) to tenderize (meat)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be tenderized before cooking.

3. (transitive) to thresh (flax)
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:

     Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar

     five flax bundles: one threshed and four pending thresing

4. (transitive) to churn

   Mazando o leite obtemos a manteiga. ― By churning milk we obtain butter.

   Synonym: petar

5. (transitive) to bruise

   Synonym: esmolicar

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bruise (to gain bruises; to get bruised)

   A froita mazouse no transporte. ― The fruit bruised during the transportation.

7. (intransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) to bang (to engage in sexual intercourse)

   Cacháronos mazando nos servizos! ― They found them banging in the bathroom!

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mazar

infinitive			mazar
gerund			mazando
past participle				singular		plural
		masculine		mazado		mazados
		feminine		mazada		mazadas
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		eu	ti	el / ela / Vde.	nós	vós	eles / elas / Vdes.
	present	mazo	mazas	maza	mazamos	mazades	mazan
	imperfect	mazaba	mazabas	mazaba	mazabamos	mazabades	mazaban
	preterite	macei	mazaches	mazou	mazamos	mazastes	mazaron
	pluperfect	mazara	mazaras	mazara	mazaramos	mazarades	mazaran
	future	mazarei	mazarás	mazará	mazaremos	mazaredes	mazarán
	conditional	mazaría	mazarías	mazaría	mazariamos	mazariades	mazarían
subjunctive		eu	ti	el / ela / Vde.	nós	vós	eles / elas / Vdes.
	present	mace	maces	mace	macemos	macedes	macen
	preterite	mazase	mazases	mazase	mazásemos	mazásedes	mazasen
	future	mazar	mazares	mazar	mazarmos	mazardes	mazaren
imperative		—	ti	Vde.	nós	vós	Vdes.
	affirmative	—	maza	mace	macemos	mazade	macen
	negative	—	maces	mace	macemos	macedes	macen
personal infinitive		eu	ti	el / ela / Vde.	nós	vós	eles / elas / Vdes.
		mazar	mazares	mazar	mazarmos	mazardes	mazaren

Derived terms

• mazado
• Mazadoiro
• mazadura

Related terms

• maza

References

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

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Alternative forms

• mazzar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• mazzer (Puter)

Etymology

Compare Italian ammazzare, Friulian maçâ, Venetian masar, Istriot masà, Occitan massar, cf. also Spanish mazar.

Verb

mazar

1. (Sutsilvan) to kill

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Spanish

Etymology

From maza. Compare Portuguese maçar; cf. also Occitan massar, Italian ammazzare.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /maˈsaɾ/

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macé, past participle mazado)

1. to tenderize (meat)
2. to churn

Conjugation

• Rule: z becomes a c before e.

    Conjugation of mazar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)^{edit data}

infinitive			mazar
gerund			mazando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mazado		mazada
		plural		mazados		mazadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mazo	mazastú mazásvos	maza	mazamos	mazáis	mazan
	imperfect	mazaba	mazabas	mazaba	mazábamos	mazabais	mazaban
	preterite	macé	mazaste	mazó	mazamos	mazasteis	mazaron
	future	mazaré	mazarás	mazará	mazaremos	mazaréis	mazarán
	conditional	mazaría	mazarías	mazaría	mazaríamos	mazaríais	mazarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mace	macestú macésvos2	mace	macemos	macéis	macen
	imperfect (ra)	mazara	mazaras	mazara	mazáramos	mazarais	mazaran
	imperfect (se)	mazase	mazases	mazase	mazásemos	mazaseis	mazasen
	future1	mazare	mazares	mazare	mazáremos	mazareis	mazaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		mazatú mazávos	mace	macemos	mazad	macen
	negative		no maces	no mace	no macemos	no macéis	no macen

• ¹ Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
• ² Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Other verbs with this conjugation:

► Spanish verbs ending in -ar (conjugation -zar)