# mazar
## English
### Alternative forms

* mazaar

### Etymology

Arabic مَزَار (mazār)

### Noun

mazar (plural mazars)
* A mausoleum or shrine in the Arab world.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* maçar (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (standard) /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (seseo) /maˈsaɾ/ [maˈsaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: ma‧zar

### Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macei, past participle mazado)
* (transitive) to pound, to hammer (to strike repeatedly)
    O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be pounded before cooking.
* (transitive) to tenderize (meat)
    O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be tenderized before cooking.
* (transitive) to thresh (flax)
** 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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 maçarfive flax bundles: one threshed and four pending thresing
* (transitive) to churn
    Synonym: petar
    Mazando o leite obtemos a manteiga. ― By churning milk we obtain butter.
* (transitive) to bruise
    Synonym: esmolicar
* (pronominal) to bruise (to gain bruises; to get bruised)
    A froita mazouse no transporte. ― The fruit bruised during the transportation.
* (intransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) to bang (to engage in sexual intercourse)
    Cacháronos mazando nos servizos! ― They found them banging in the bathroom!

#### Derived terms

* mazado
* Mazadoiro
* mazadura

#### Related terms

* maza

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mazar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Romansch
### 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
* (Sutsilvan) to kill

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈsaɾ/ [maˈsaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ma‧zar

### Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macé, past participle mazado)
* to tenderize (meat)
* to churn

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | mazar | mazar | mazar | mazar | mazar |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | mazando | mazando | mazando | mazando | mazando |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | mazado | mazado | mazada | mazada |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | mazados | mazados | mazadas | mazadas |
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | 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 |
| indicative | present | mazo | mazas$^{tú}$ mazás$^{vos}$ | maza | mazamos | mazáis | mazan |
| indicative | imperfect | mazaba | mazabas | mazaba | mazábamos | mazabais | mazaban |
| indicative | preterite | macé | mazaste | mazó | mazamos | mazasteis | mazaron |
| indicative | future | mazaré | mazarás | mazará | mazaremos | mazaréis | mazarán |
| indicative | conditional | mazaría | mazarías | mazaría | mazaríamos | mazaríais | mazarían |
| subjunctive | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| subjunctive | present | mace | maces$^{tú}$ macés$^{vos2}$ | mace | macemos | macéis | macen |
| subjunctive | imperfect (ra) | mazara | mazaras | mazara | mazáramos | mazarais | mazaran |
| subjunctive | imperfect (se) | mazase | mazases | mazase | mazásemos | mazaseis | mazasen |
| subjunctive | future$^1$ | mazare | mazares | mazare | mazáremos | mazareis | mazaren |
| imperative | | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes |
| imperative | affirmative | | maza$^{tú}$ mazá$^{vos}$ | mace | macemos | mazad | macen |
| imperative | negative | | no maces | no mace | no macemos | no macéis | no macen |
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

### Further reading

* “mazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014