má

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaː]

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má

1. third-person singular present indicative of mít

má

1. inflection of můj:
   1. feminine singular nominative/vocative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative/vocative

• Rhymes: -ɔaː

má

1. first/third-person singular present of mega

   eg má fara

   I have to go

má

1. feminine singular of mao

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• IPA^(key): /mauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

See mega.

má

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of mega

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má (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative máði, supine máð)

1. (with accusative) to blur, to efface

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• má út/má burt (“to wipe out”)

• ám

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mˠɑː/[1]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠaː/

From Old Irish mag, from Proto-Celtic *magos.

• magh (classical)
• maigh
• máigh

má f (genitive singular má, nominative plural mánna)

1. plain (expanse of land with relatively low relief), champaign (open countryside, or an area of open countryside)

• má-oifigeach (“field-officer”)
• oighear má (“field-ice”)
• Ómaigh (“Omagh”)

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton ma, mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

má (triggers lenition)

1. if

   Má chreideann sé an scéal sin tá sé saonta go maith. ― If he believes that story, he’s pretty gullible.

2. even though
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:

     Nuair a fuair sé bás, má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici.

     When he died, even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her.

• Used in factual conditionals with the present or past indicative and takes the independent form of verbs that distinguish between dependent and independent forms.

• dá (in counterfactual conditionals)
• mura (in negative sentences; ‘unless’)

• más

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má

1. about, around

• gualainn má gualainn (“shoulder to shoulder”)
• leath má leath (“half and half”)
• má gcuairt (“around, about, on every side”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “má”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “má” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “má” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• ma — nonstandard

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má (ma², Zhuyin ㄇㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吔
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗍
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犘
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痲／痳
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菺
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔴／麻
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟆, 蟇
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麻

From Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂. Cognate with Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “surely, truly”), Sanskrit स्म (sma).

• IPA^(key): [maː]

má (triggers lenition)

1. if

   Synonym: dia

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^a12

     Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.

     If there is anything of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^c20

     Má nudub·feil i n‑ellug coirp Críst, adib cland Abrache amal ṡodin, et it sib ata chomarpi Abracham.

     If you pl are in the union of the body of Christ, you are Abraham’s children in that case, and it is you who are Abraham’s heirs.

Followed by the present indicative if the condition is in the past or present; by the present subjunctive if the condition is in the future.

• mani (“if not, unless”)

• Irish: má
• Manx: my
• Scottish Gaelic: ma

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 558

má

1. first/third-person singular present active indicative of mega

• Icelandic: má
• Faroese: má
• Norwegian Nynorsk: må
• Norwegian Bokmål: må
• Old Swedish: mā
  • Swedish: må
• Danish: må

má

1. indefinite accusative singular of már

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese maa, from Latin malam.

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: má

má f sg

1. feminine singular of mau

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

má

1. love, like

• Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [maː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [maː˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [maː˦˥]

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From Proto-Vietic *-maːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] maː³ ("cheek"), Arem umæːʔ ("gills"), Proto-Palaungic *cəmaːʔ (“cheek”) (whence Riang [Sak] sᵊmɑʔ²), Proto-Nicobarese *samaː (whence Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] shama (“jaw”)) and Bondo ǰama ("jaw").

(classifier cái) má • (𦟐)

1. (anatomy) cheek

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媽 (“mother”, SV: ma).

má

1. (Southern Vietnam) mother; mom

   Synonyms: mạ, mẹ, mợ, u

From Proto-Vietic *s-maːʔ, whence also mạ (“rice seedlings”), the form used in isolation.

má • (𥡗)

1. (only in compounds) rice seedlings