ma

See also: Variations of "ma"

ma - English

Noun

ma (plural mas)

  1. (astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑː/

Noun

ma (plural mas, not generally used in the plural)

  1. (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama
  2. (colloquial) The landlady of a theater.

Usage notes

  • Often capitalized when used to refer to a specific person.
    • Hey, Ma, I’d like you to meet my friend Jamie.

Synonyms

Translations


Noun

ma

  1. May

Usage notes

  • Usually capitalised as Ma.

Determiner

ma

  1. (dialectal, informal) Alternative spelling of my

Particle

ma (Manglish, Singlish)

  1. Alternative form of mah

Anagrams

ma - 'Are'are

Conjunction

ma

  1. and

ma - Acehnese

Noun

ma

  1. mother

ma - Afar

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma/, [ˈmʌ]

Determiner

(bound form maa-)

  1. what? what kind of?

Derived terms

ma - Afrikaans

Noun

ma (plural ma's)

  1. mom, mother

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

ma - Ajië

Conjunction

ma

  1. and

ma - Akkadian

Pronunciation

  • (Old Babylonian) IPA: /ma/

Conjunction

ma

  1. (enclitic) and, but
  2. (enclitic) used to stress single words, especially the predicate of nominal clauses
    • 𒌓𒈠𒈠u₄-ma-ma /ūmamma/ ― this very day

Alternative forms

Cuneiform spellings
Phonetic

ma - Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Noun

ma m (Gressoney, Issime)

  1. man
  2. husband

ma - Anaang

Verb

  1. to love

ma - Anguthimri

Noun

ma

  1. (Mpakwithi) man

Verb

ma

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to hear
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to listen

ma - Aromanian

Adverb

ma

  1. more

Conjunction

ma

  1. but, yet
  2. if

ma - Asturian

Alternative forms

Noun

ma f (plural mas)

  1. mother

ma - Bambara

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [màꜜà]

Noun

ma

  1. sea cow

Verb

ma (auxiliary)

  1. (verbal auxiliary) marks an action which is not accomplished
    • A ma na fɔlɔ
      • He has not come yet
    • Sirajɛ ma taa dɔgɔ la
      • Siraje did not go to the market

ma - Bavarian

Pronoun

ma

  1. me (dative)
  2. we

ma - Big Nambas

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Verb

ma

  1. come
    • aparvr ti aparma paua, patrahr = If they both come the day after tomorrow, wait for them.

ma - Breton

Pronoun

ma

  1. my

Interjection

ma

  1. good!

Conjunction

ma

  1. that
  2. if

Synonyms

ma - Cameroon Pidgin

Determiner

ma

  1. Alternative spelling of my (1st person singular possessive determiner)

ma - Caolan

Noun

ma

  1. horse

ma - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈma/
  • Homophone:

Determiner

ma

  1. feminine singular of mon

ma - Chamorro

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mæ/

Pronoun

ma

  1. they

Usage notes

ma - Cimbrian

Noun

ma m

  1. (Tredici Comuni) moon

Alternative forms


Pronoun

ma

  1. (Luserna) one, you (indefinite pronoun)

ma - Coatepec Nahuatl

Noun

ma

  1. hand.

ma - Dama (Sierra Leone)

Noun

ma

  1. mother-in-law

ma - Dorze

Noun

ma

  1. bee (insect)

ma - Dutch

Noun

ma f (plural ma's, diminutive maatje n)

  1. (informal) mother

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: maa

ma - Efik

Verb

  1. love, like

ma - Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑ/

Pronoun

ma (genitive mu, partitive mind, long form mina)

  1. I (1st person singular personal pronoun)

Usage notes

  • Used unstressed in a sentence; when the pronoun is stressed, mina is used.

Declension

1st person singular
nominative mina (ma)
genitive minu (mu)
partitive mind
illative minusse (musse)
inessive minus (mus)
elative minust (must)
allative minule (mulle)
adessive minul (mul)
ablative minult (mult)
translative minuks
terminative minuni
essive minuna
abessive minuta
comitative minuga

ma - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝]
  • Syllabification: ma

Noun

ma

  1. Abbreviation of maanantai (Monday).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝]
  • Syllabification: ma

Pronoun

ma

  1. (personal, archaic, poetic) I

Synonyms

ma - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Determiner

ma f

  1. feminine singular of mon
    • Ma mère est venue me voir.
      • My mother came to see me.
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person mon1mames
Second person ton1tates
Third person son1sases
PluralFirst person notrenos
Second person votre2vos2
Third person leurleurs
  • 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
  • 2 Also used as the polite singular form.

Descendants

  • Louisiana Creole:

ma - Friulian

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

ma - German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/, [mä], [mɐ]

Adverb

ma

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of mal.

ma - Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

Pronoun

ma

  1. 2nd-person singular pronoun: you
  2. 2nd-person plural pronoun: you
  3. 2nd-person singular possessive pronoun: your
  4. 2nd-person plural possessive pronoun: your

ma - Hawaiian

Preposition

ma

  1. in, at

ma - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmɒ]

Adverb

ma

  1. today
  2. (attributively, before any time of day) this …… (morning etc.), to-…… (as in “tonight”)

Noun

ma (usually uncountable, plural mák)

  1. (usually preceded by the definite article “a) today (the present time period; nowadays)

Declension

The suffixed singular forms máig, mára, mához, máról, and mától are common, while mát, mának, mával, máért, mában, mánál, mába, and mából occur mostly in a figurative sense, referring to the present time. The phrase a mai nap is commonly used in its literal sense, adding suffixes to nap instead of this term. Its plural forms are virtually non-existent.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

Its (single- and multiple-possession) possessive forms are hardly if ever used.

Possessive forms of ma

Derived terms

Expressions

ma - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

Synonyms

ma - Interlingua

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

ma - Istriot

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

ma - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma/*, /ˈma/
  • Hyphenation:

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

Noun

ma f

  1. Abbreviation of mamma.

Interjection

ma

  1. (informal, emphatic) indicates emotion or emphasis
    • Ma che carino!Oh, how cute!
  2. (informal) used to introduce a new topic or a question
    • Ma...tu sei di Roma?So...you're from Rome?

ma - Japanese

Romanization

ma

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

ma - Jarawa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Pronoun

ma

  1. me; us (singular and plural first-person pronoun in the accusative case)

Usage notes

The pronoun mi can also be used in the accusative case, but it is less common than ma. When used in possessive constructions, the choice of pronoun is largely determined by vowel harmony.

ma - Kabyle

Conjunction

ma

  1. if

ma - Kavalan

Adverb

ma

  1. only

Noun

ma

  1. daddy; father (term of address)

ma - Keoru-Ahia

Noun

ma

  1. water

ma - Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mǎꜜ/
  • As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.

Noun

ma

  1. truth

Adverb

ma

  1. truly

Particle

ma

  1. (for class 6) of

ma - Ladino

Conjunction

ma (Latin spelling)

  1. but
  2. why

ma - Lala (South Africa)

Verb

-má

  1. to stand

ma - Lhao Vo

Noun

ma

  1. inheritance
  2. heirloom

ma - Ligurian

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

ma - Livonian

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ma

  1. I; first person pronoun, referring to the speaker

Declension

singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) minā ma mēg meg
genitive (genitīv) min mäd
partitive (partitīv) mīnda mēḑi
dative (datīv) minnõn min mäddõn män
instrumental (instrumentāl) minkõks mädkõks
illative (illatīv) minnõ minnõz mēži
inessive (inesīv) minsõ mēši
elative (elatīv) minstõ mēšti

ma - Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ma]

Verb

ma

  1. third-person singular present of měś

ma - Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maː/
  • Usually unstressed and then automatically shortened to /ma/.
  • Homophone: ma’

Adverb

ma

  1. not; used to negate verbs and pronominal adverbs
    • Illum ma nixrobx.
      • I do not drink today.
    • Qatt ma nixrob.
      • I never drink. / I do not ever drink.

Usage notes

  • Generally used together with the negative ending -x attached to the verb or pronominal adverb. This ending is absent, however, when another negative word is used, such as qatt (never), ebda (no, none), ħadd (nobody), xejn (nothing).

Pronoun

ma

  1. (relative) Alternative form of li (who, which, that), used in some fossiled expressions
    • L-ewwel ma tiekol, l-għajn.
      • You eat with your eyes first.
      • (literally, “The first that eats is the eye.”)
  2. (obsolete, with comparative adjective) how (as in “how beautiful is...”)

Derived terms

ma - Mandarin

Romanization

ma (ma5ma0, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄚ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

ma

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

ma - Maonan

Noun

ma

  1. dog

ma - Maricopa

Noun

ma

  1. milk

ma - Mbyá Guaraní

Adverb

ma

  1. already

Particle

ma

  1. separates the topic from the rest of the sentence.
    • Oja ma haku.
      • As for the pan, it is hot.

ma - Middle English

Pronoun

ma

  1. Alternative form of man (one, you)

ma - Mursi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mà/, [mà]
  • Hyphenation: ma

Noun

ma (Ethiopic script )

  1. water
  2. river

ma - Neapolitan

Conjunction

ma

  1. but

ma - Nefamese

Noun

ma

  1. mother, mom

ma - Nigerian Pidgin

Determiner

ma

  1. my

ma - North Frisian

Preposition

ma

  1. (Mooring) with

ma - Northern Ndebele

Verb

-má

  1. to stand

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ma - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑː/

Adverb

  1. more
  2. instead, rather

Adjective

(indeclinable)

  1. more (often + genitive)

ma - Old French

Determiner

ma f (masculine mon, plural mes)

  1. my (first-person singular possessive)

Descendants

  • French: ma

ma - Old Frisian

Pronoun

ma

  1. one

ma - Old Irish

Conjunction

ma

  1. Alternative spelling of

ma - Opao

Noun

ma

  1. water

ma - Orokolo

Noun

ma

  1. water

ma - Phalura

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Pronoun

ma (personal, Perso-Arabic spelling مہ)

  1. I (1sg nom, subject), me (1sg direct object)

Alternative forms

  • máa- (Forming one phonological word with following postposition or clitic, e.g. máathe 'me, to me' with the 'to'.)

ma - Pipil

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /maː/

Particle

  1. Subjunctive marker
    • Nechilwijket ma nikinkwepili musta
      • They told me to return it to them tomorrow
    • Tikajkawat ma seseya pal tikwat
      • We leave it to cool down so we can eat it
  2. Clipping of maka. (Negative imperative marker)
    • Ma shina kiuni!
      • Don't say that!

Usage notes

  • The particle ma helps disambiguating many of the subjunctive forms from the present indicative or imperative forms.

Verb

-má

  1. Clipping of -maka.

ma - Pitjantjatjara

Adverb

ma

  1. away

ma - Pohnpeian

Conjunction

ma

  1. if

ma - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/
  • Syllabification: ma

Verb

ma

  1. third-person singular present indicative of mieć
    • Andrzej ma 18 lat.Andrzej is 18 years old.

Pronoun

ma

  1. Alternative form of moja.

ma - Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɐ/

Contraction

ma

  1. Contraction of me a (her/it to me).

ma - Romani

Particle

ma

  1. don't (prohibitive particle)

ma - Romanian

Adverb

ma

  1. Obsolete form of mai.

ma - Salar

Conjunction

ma

  1. and

ma - Samoan

Conjunction

ma

  1. and
  2. because

Preposition

ma

  1. with

ma - Savi

Pronoun

ma

  1. I; first-person singular personal pronoun

ma - Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/, /mə/

Determiner

ma

  1. my

ma - Scottish Gaelic

Conjunction

ma

  1. if
    • Ma tha thu ’g iarrraidh sin…If you want that…

Usage notes

ma - Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mâ/
  • Hyphenation: m‧a

Interjection

(Cyrillic spelling ма̏)

  1. bah, whatever
  2. Placed at the beginning of a sentence to add intensity and surprise
    • Ma kako?!How?!
    • Ma gdje?Where in the world...?
    • Ma da?Really?
    • Ma to je on!That's definitely him!
  3. Placed at the beginning of a sentence to express dismissal and indignation
    • Ma ne.No way.
    • Ma daj.Oh come on.
    • Ma kakvi.Impossible.
  4. Used to emphasize sarcasm
    • Ma da!/Ma svakako!/Ma naravno!Yeah, sure.
    • Ma nemoj.Oh you don't say?
    • Ma nikad niste vi krivi.Of course it can never be your fault.

ma - Situ

Particle

ma

  1. not, no; negative particle

ma - Slovak

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ma]

Pronoun

ma

  1. genitive/accusative of ja

ma - Spanish

Noun

ma f (plural mas)

  1. (Latin America) mum; mom

ma - Sumerian

Romanization

ma

  1. Romanization of 𒈠 (ma)

ma - Suri

Noun

  1. water

ma - Swazi

Verb

-́ma

  1. to stand
  2. to stop, to wait

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

ma - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ma
  • IPA: /ma/, [mɐ]

Noun

ma (Baybayin spelling )

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m, in the Abakada alphabet.
    • Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) em, (in the Abecedario) eme

Noun

ma (Baybayin spelling )

  1. Clipping of mama: mom

Noun

ma (Baybayin spelling )

  1. (zoology) mollusk with a shell that looks like a coat of mail

ma - Tahitian

Conjunction

ma

  1. and

Preposition

ma

  1. with

ma - Tairuma

Noun

ma

  1. Alternative form of ma'a

ma - Tày

Pronunciation

  • (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [maː˧˧]
  • (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [maː˦˥]

Noun

ma (𬍄)

  1. (zoology) dog

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ma eo
  • ma han
  • ma khuyển
  • ma nhat
  • ma nuầy
  • ma sleng
  • ma sluông
  • ma thầu

Noun

ma ()

  1. ghost

ma - Teanu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Noun

ma

  1. arm
  2. hand

ma - Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Conjunction

ma

  1. relative clause introducer; which, that

ma - Toaripi

Noun

ma

  1. (Toaripi, Kaipi, Sepoe) water

ma - Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈma/
  • Hyphenation: ma

Conjunction

ma

  1. Joins noun clauses; and, with
  2. Joins verb clauses; and, also, too

Preposition

ma

  1. from, away from

Preposition

ma

  1. Marks a prospective role of the subject; as, for

ma - Tz'utujil

Adverb

ma

  1. not

ma - Veps

Noun

ma

  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. soil
  4. land, country, region
  5. state

Inflection

Inflection of ma (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing. ma
genitive sing. man
partitive sing. mad
partitive plur. maid

Derived terms

  • kodima
  • kosmosma
  • kuivma
  • linma
  • mail'm
  • makar
  • makondi
  • makovandez
  • maleveduz'pird
  • manaluine
  • manedustai
  • mankaivai
  • manmäričii
  • manparemboituz
  • manpidäi
  • manradai
  • manrehkaiduz
  • mansüvüded
  • mantedo
  • manvägituz
  • mapiduz'pird
  • mapolišk
  • mapähkim
  • maröunanvarjoičii
  • maujui
  • mavezieläi
  • mavoi
  • pämante
  • sinižma
  • tagama
  • veraz ma

ma - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) ma

  1. ghost (spirit appearing after death)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier con) ma

  1. (archaic) a demon
  2. (archaic) magic

Synonyms

Derived terms

Derived terms

Anagrams

ma - Vilamovian

Pronoun

ma

  1. (indefinite) one, they (indefinite third-person singular pronoun)

ma - Vilela

Noun

ma

  1. water

ma - Warao

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ma

  1. my
    • Ma rahe hakaya.
      • My brother runs.
    • Natu ma tatutuma iji minajara?
      • Granny, have you not seen my wives?
  2. me, accusative of iné
    • Ma hube abuae.
      • A snake bit me.
    • Ihi ma isiko naonahara?
      • Don't you come with me?

ma - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Pronoun

ma

  1. (animate) third-person possessive pronoun, its
    • mene me mo omathis is his child (literally, “this (is) he his child”)
    • da kabi mo gouthe goat's leg

Usage notes

The possessive pronoun ma follows West Makian vowel harmony, and as such may surface as me, mi, or mo.

Alternative forms


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Determiner

ma

  1. (distal) that, those
    • pala ma ilamothat house is large
    • oma mathose children
    • Synonym: mema
    • Antonym: ne

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Conjunction

ma

  1. then
    • toi ipongi, ma tasagal yoif it rains, then I won't go

ma - Wolof

Pronoun

ma

  1. me (first-person singular object pronoun)

ma - Wutunhua

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mɑ]

Pronoun

ma

  1. what (interrogative)

Noun

ma

  1. horse

ma - Xhosa

Verb

-̂ma

  1. (intransitive) to halt
  2. (intransitive) to stop

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

ma - Yola

Verb

ma

  1. Alternative form of mye (may)

ma - Zazaki

Pronoun

ma

  1. we; us (first-person plural personal pronoun)

ma - Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ma˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: ma1
  • Hyphenation: ma

Noun

ma (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 𬌫 or or 𬍄 or 𰡪 or or or 𭸱, 1957–1982 spelling ma)

  1. dog

Derived terms

  • mabag
  • ma'byaeuq
  • madwknyaen
  • madwkroeg
  • mafan
  • magaet
  • magaeuj
  • mageq
  • ma'gyaep
  • manaez
  • maningq
  • ma'ngauz
  • ma'nyoengq
  • ma'nyungz
  • masauq
  • masae
  • mavangh
  • maamq
  • maoep

Verb

ma (Sawndip forms or ⿸广末 or or or ⿸广处 or 𮜃 or ⿰㐅馬 or 𫹞 or , 1957–1982 spelling ma)

  1. to come back; to return

ma - Zulu

Verb

-má

  1. (intransitive) to stand, to be standing
  2. (intransitive) to stand still, to not move
  3. (intransitive) to stop, to come to a standstill, to halt

Inflection

Tone H, latent i
Infinitive ukuma

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of ma
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