# mase
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /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)
* To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mase (plural mases)
* Obsolete form of maze.

### Anagrams

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmasɛ]

### Noun

mase
* 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: /maːsə/, [ˈmæːsə]

### Verb

mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)
* crush
* squash
* crunch
* press, squeeze
* jostle
* slog
* struggle

## Japanese
### Romanization

mase
* Rōmaji transcription of ませ

## Manchu
### Romanization

mase
* Romanization of ᠮᠠᠰᡝ

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle French Meuse

### Noun

māse f
* 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: /ˈmaːz(ə)/

#### Noun

mase (plural mases)
* Something that causes bewilderment or mystery (e.g. a wild fancy; a confused notion)
* Something that causes misleadingness or chicanery.
* (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
* Alternative form of messe

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mase
* Alternative form of mace (“mace”)

### Etymology 4

Probably from amased.

#### Verb

mase
* Alternative form of masen

## Northern Kurdish
### Noun

mase f
* 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)
* 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)
* Alternative form of masa

### Noun

mase f (definite singular masa, indefinite plural maser, definite plural masene)
* A nag (someone who nags, complains).
    Jadå, masa!OK, your nag!

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maisā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑː.se/, [ˈmɑː.ze]

### Noun

māse f (nominative plural māsan)
* titmouse

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* cōlmāse
* hicemāse
* spiċmāse

#### Descendants

* Middle English: mose
** ⇒ Middle English: titmose
*** English: titmouse

## Spanish
### Verb

mase
* inflection of masar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Zazaki
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ma‧se

### Etymology 1

Related to Persian ماهی (mâhi).

#### Noun

mase
* fish
* (astronomy, astrology) Pisces

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish masa.

#### Noun

mase
* table