# mas
## Translingual
### Etymology

* (metrology): From m- +‎ as.

### Symbol

mas
* (metrology) milliarcsecond
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maasai.

## English
### Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

#### Noun

mas (plural mas)
* A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.
** 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 520:When she was pregnant with her second child they ran away to France and played at being artists in a secluded mas near Avignon – two months of bliss.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mas
* plural of ma

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mas (plural mas)
* (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.
** 2017 December 22, Shane Superville, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:Ward, who was best known for his winning portrayal of George Bailey’s Cylindul the Sun God from the Golden City of Palengue, became a staple on the mas circuit up until the 1990s, lending his support to the likes of Peter Minshall and others.
** 2017 September 28, “Neville Aming Passes Away At 96 In T&T”, in Bernews:Aming was a recipient of the Humming Bird Silver for his contribution to the vibrancy of T&T mas in 1996.
** 2016 February 7, Michelle Loubon, “Taking a Carnival tour”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:Belmont masman and wire bender Richard Lera displays a headpiece at his Norfolk Street mas camp.

### Anagrams

* 'ams, MSA, Sam., ASM, AMS, sam, sma, SMA, Sam, S. Am., A.M.s, SAM, asm

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas/

### Noun

mas (plural maste)
* mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

#### Derived terms

* hoofmas

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* mat

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mas]

#### Verb

mas (aorist mata, participle matur)
* to measure
* to estimate, assess
* to consider

##### Derived terms

* matem
* matje
* matshëm

##### Related terms

* mot

### Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ̊ (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek πός (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic по (po, “behind, after”)).

#### Preposition

mas (+ ablative)
* behind, after, beyond
* at
* over
* against

#### Adverb

mas
* behind, after
* hence

#### Derived terms

* masi (Gheg)
* masanej (Gheg)

#### Related terms

* pas
* mbasi
* përmasë
* mbas

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 246-7

## Asturian
### Noun

mas f pl
* plural of ma

### Conjunction

mas
* but
    Synonym: pero
    Mas nun hai qu'estrayeseBut don't get distracted
* only, other than, no more than (used with negative)
    Nun había mas unos vecinosThere wasn't anyone other than some neighbours

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]

### Particle

mas (Basahan spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)
* comparative marker of inequality
    Synonym: urog
    Mas dakula ako kisa saiya.I am bigger than him/her.
    Mas mahal an talong digdi kompara sa balyong merkado.The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmas]

### Noun

mas m (plural masos)
* farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

#### Derived terms

* Masdenverge
* Masdevall
* masia

#### Related terms

* masover

### References

* “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmas]
* Rhymes: -as
* Homophone: maz

### Noun

mas
* genitive plural of maso

## Danish
### Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)
* bother, trouble

### Verb

mas
* imperative of mase

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* màs (ORB, narrow)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of més (“more”).

### Conjunction

mas (ORB, broad)
* but

### References

* mais in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* mas in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma/ ~ /mɑ/, /mas/ ~ /mɑs/

### Noun

mas m (plural mas)
* (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

### Further reading

* “mas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas/

### Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”).

#### Noun

mas
* March

### Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”).

#### Noun

mas
* mass

## Iban
### Etymology

From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas/

### Noun

mas
* gold (element)

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːs/
* Rhymes: -aːs

### Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)
* chatter, small talk, chit-chat

#### Declension
## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mas]

### Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦩꦱ꧀ (mas, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, mās, ĕmas, hĕmas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

#### Pronoun

mas
* (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours

##### Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:
* mas (used for males)
* mbak (used for females)
* kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
* Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
* saudari (used for women of equal status)
* bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
* ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
* sampeyan (Central & East Java, gender-neutral)
* panjenengan (Central Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

### Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

#### Noun

mas
* Alternative form of emas (“gold”)

##### Derived terms

* mas kawin

### Further reading

* “mas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante.

### Noun

mas m (invariable)
* (nautical) motor torpedo boat

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of ma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Spain):(file)

### Adverb

mas (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאס)
* more; -er (used to make comparisons)
    Antonym: menos
** 2019 November 27, Eliz Gatenyo, “Las Lentejas Del Onkl Izak”, in Şalom‎:La madre de mi esfuegra Lea, teniya un ermano muncho mas grande de eya ke se yamava Izak. Izak era el mas grande de los 5 ermanos i era muy seriozo.My mother-in-law's mother Lea had a brother much bigger than her whose name was Izak. Izak was the biggest of the three brothers and was very serious.
* (with definite article) most; -est (used to make superlatives)
    Antonym: menos
** 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎, numbers 11–34, page 105:La fiesta de Soucoth que el Pentatioco (cinco livros de la ley) llama Hag Aasif, la fiesta de la recolta, es la mas importante y la mas alegre por un pueblo esencialmente agricultor segun era el pueblo de Israel.The festival of Sukkot that the Pentateuch calls Hag Aasif, the harvest festival, is the most important and the most joyful for an essentially agricultural people as were the people of Israel.

### References

* ↑ “mas”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), whence Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“young man”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young girl”), and Old Armenian մարի (mari, “female bird, hen”). But this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.
It has been connected with masturbor and with mālus (“pole”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /maːs/, [mäːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /mas/, [mäs]

### Noun

mās m (genitive maris); third declension
* male
* man
    Synonym: vir

#### Usage notes

Mās means male, in contrast to fēmina (“female”); thus, it means man (in contrast to woman) when used in reference to an adult human, but it can also be used to refer to male animals, deities, or even plants. "Man" in the sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, and in the sense of “(free) adult male human being” by Latin vir.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Coordinate terms

* fēmina (“female”)

#### Derived terms

* marītō
* marītus
* masculīnus
* masculus
* sēmimās

### Adjective

mās (neuter mare); third-declension two-termination adjective
* male, masculine, manly
    Synonyms: masculus, masculīnus, virīlis
** Apuleius Madaurensis, De Mundo 20.1:Sic mare et femineum secus iungitur, ac diversus utriusque sexus ex dissimilibus simile animal facitThus the male and female sex is joined together, and the different sex of each makes a similar animal from the dissimilar.

#### Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mās, maris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 366

### Further reading

* “mas” in volume 8, column 421, line 74 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
* “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit

## Macanese
### Alternative forms

* maz, mâz

### Etymology

From Portuguese mas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɐʃ/, /mɐs/

### Conjunction

mas
* but
    Mas vôs sábi qui ancusa iou tâ papiâ.But you know what I'm talking about.

#### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with más.

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* emas
* امس
* مس

### Etymology

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mas]
* Rhymes: -mas, -as

### Noun

mas (Jawi spelling امس)
* Alternative form of emas

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman masse.

#### Noun

mas
* Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

### Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

#### Noun

mas
* Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

## Northern Sami
### Pronoun

mas
* locative singular of mii

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

mas
* imperative of mase

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

mas
* imperative of masa

### Noun

mas n (definite singular maset, uncountable)
* nagging (constant complaint)

## Occitan
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mas m (plural mases)
* farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan-speaking and Catalan-speaking territories.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of mais.

### Conjunction

mas
* but; yet
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 5 (facsimile):Pois que a santa dona o fillo do Conde recebeu, de o crïar muit' apóst' e mui ben muito se trameteu; mas un irmão que o Cond' havía, mui falss' e sandeu, Pediu-lle séu amor; e porque ela mal llo acolleu, degolou-ll' o meninno ũa noit' e meteu ll' o cuitélo na mão pola fazer perder. Quenas coitas deste mundo ben quisér sofrer…Given that the holy woman received a son from the Count, someone intervened to make him very elegant and very well treated, but the Count's very dishonest and silly brother asked for her love, and because she protected him poorly, he slit the boy's throat that night and put the knife in the hand to be rid of it. The world's afflictions may well tolerate him…

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: mas

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis.

### Adverb

mas
* more; -er (used to make comparisons)
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 82r:Al dia ſeteno dixieró lo ellos aſáſó. Q́ es mas dulce q́ la miel o q́l es mas fuerte del leon. dixo ſápſó. Si nó araſſedes có mẏ uaq́ella. nó ſoltariedes mi adeuináçiella.[Al día seteno dixieron lo ellos a Sansón: “Que es mas dulce que la miel, o qual es mas fuerte del león?” Dixo Sansón: “Si no arassedes con mi vaqiella, non soltariedes mi adevinanciella”.]On the seventh day they said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey, or what is stronger than a lion?” Samson said: “Had you not ploughed with my heifer, you would not have solved my little riddle”.

### Conjunction

mas
* but; yet
    Synonym: pero
** 1492, Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor 151:Lo cual yo no niego, pero atrevime a ello pensando que me harías merced no segund quien la pedía, mas segund tú, que la haviés de darI do not deny this, but I dared to do it thinking that you would forgive me, not because of who was asking for forgiveness, but because it is proper of you, who had to do it

#### Descendants

* Ladino: ma, mas, מאס, מה
* Spanish: mas, más

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mas”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 329

## Papiamentu
### Adverb

mas
* most

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmas/
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: mas

### Noun

mas f
* genitive plural of masa

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Doublet of mais.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /mas/, /majs/ [maɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /mas/, /majs/ [maɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /maʃ/, /majʃ/ [maɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɐʃ/
* Homophone: mais (Brazil, with intrusive /j/)
* Hyphenation: mas

### Conjunction

mas
* but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)
    Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto
    O livro é curto, mas bom.The book is short, but good.
    Somos preguiçosos mas fazemos o que precisa de ser feito.We are lazy but we do what needs to be done.
* but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)
    Fomos recebidos não com aplausos, mas pedradas.We were not received with applause, but [with] rocks.
* but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)
    Todos alunos reprovaram em matemática, mas ninguém estudou mesmo.All students flunked mathematics, but no one studied really.
* (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation
    Mas que porcaria!What the heck!
    Mas que diabos vocês estão fazendo aqui?What the hell are you doing here?

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

#### Derived terms

* mas é
* mas sim
* mas também

#### Descendants

* Macanese: mas

### Adverb

mas (not comparable)
* (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how
    Synonyms: e como, e
    Este livro é bom, mas bom mesmo.This book is good, really good.
    Os ladrões correram, mas correram.The thieves ran, and how they ran.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

### Noun

mas m (invariable)
* but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)
    Quero que você termine isso, sem mas nem porquês.I want you to finish this, no buts or whys.

#### Derived terms

* deixar de mas
* sem mas nem meio mas

## Rohingya
### Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀰𑁆𑀘 (maśca).

### Noun

mas
* fish

## Romani
### Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀲 (maṃsa), from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mēms-ó-m, from *mḗms.

### Noun

mas m (plural masa)
* meat

### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574
* Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin mansum, from mansus.

### Noun

mas n (plural masuri)
* (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

#### Related terms

* mânea

### Verb

mas
* past participle of mânea

## Scottish Gaelic
### Conjunction

mas
* if is

#### Usage notes

* This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).
    mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

## Somali
### Noun

mas m
* snake

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of más.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas/ [mas]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: mas
* Homophone: más

### Conjunction

mas
* (formal) but
    Synonym: pero
* (formal) however
    Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

### Adverb

mas
* Misspelling of más.
* Obsolete spelling of más.

### Noun

mas f pl
* plural of ma

### Further reading

* “mas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

mas c
* Dalecarlian; a man or boy from the province of Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
* (colloquial) tax collector

#### Synonyms
##### man from Dalecarlia

* dalmas
* dalkarl

##### tax collector

* skatteindrivare
* skattmas

#### See also

* dalkulla (“female Dalecarlian”)

### References

* mas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* -sam, sam, sam-

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más, from Latin magis.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: mas

### Particle

mas (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)
* comparative marker of inequality; -er
    Mas malaki ako kumpara sa kaniya.I am bigger than him/her.
    Mas mahal ang talong dito kumpara sa kabilang palengke.The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

### Anagrams

* sam-

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English must.

### Verb

mas
* must
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:3:Na God i tok olsem, “Lait i mas kamap.” Orait lait i kamap.→New International Version translation

## Tsuut'ina
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas/

### Noun

más
* knife

### References

* "Tsuut'ina Nominalized Phrases (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6EdGunXLc

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* ma's

### Etymology

From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /aː/ in South Wales. For the same semantic development compare Irish amuigh (“out”) < Old Irish i mmaig (literally “in (a) field”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːs/
* Rhymes: -aːs

### Adverb

mas
* (South Wales, colloquial) out
    Synonym: allan

#### Derived terms

* mas draw (“extremely”)
* mas o'r glas (“out of the blue”)
* mas tu fas (“right outside”)
* maswr (“outside-half”)
* tu fas (“outside”)
* tu fewn tu fas (“inside out”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Woleaian
### Verb

mas
* to die