# má
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmaː]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

má
* third-person singular present indicative of mít

### Pronoun

má
* inflection of můj:
** feminine singular nominative/vocative
** neuter plural nominative/accusative/vocative

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɔaː

### Verb

má
* first/third-person singular present of mega
    eg má faraI have to go

## Galician
### Adjective

má
* feminine singular of mao

## Ghomala'
### Noun

má class 1/3 singular of ? class 2
* mother
    Má nə̂ kwɔ̌' sim cwə́. ― Mother returned late from the market.

#### Derived terms

* gám mâ jwi à
* mâ má
* mâfò
* mâp e

### See also

* gám
* gámnyə́
* gǎm
* tá

### References

* Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

## Ibino
### Verb

má
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Ibuoro
### Verb

má
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mauː/
* Rhymes: -auː

### Etymology 1

See mega.

#### Verb

má
* first/third-person singular present indicative of mega

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Verb

má (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative máði, supine máð)
* to blur, to efface [with accusative]

##### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

##### Derived terms

* má út/má burt (“to wipe out”)

### Anagrams

* ám

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /mˠɑː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /mˠaː/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* magh (classical)
* maigh
* máigh

#### Noun

má f (genitive singular má, nominative plural mánna)
* plain (expanse of land with relatively low relief), champaign (open countryside, or an area of open countryside)

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
má
mánna
vocative
a mhá
a mhánna
genitive
má
mánna
dative
má
mánna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an mhá
na mánna
genitive
na má
na mánna
dative
leis an má don mhá
leis na mánna :

##### Derived terms

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Conjunction

má (triggers lenition)
* if
    Má chreideann sé an scéal sin tá sé saonta go maith. ― If he believes that story, he’s pretty gullible.
* 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.

##### Usage notes

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

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* más

### Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Preposition

má
* about, around

##### Derived terms

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

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “má”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “má”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “má”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 64

## Itu Mbon Uzo
### Verb

má
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* ma — nonstandard

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Romanization

má (ma$^2$, Zhuyin ㄇㄚˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 吔
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗍
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 犘
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痲 / 痳
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菺
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔴 / 麻
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟆, 蟇
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麻

## Nawdm
### Pronoun

má
* I (subject), my

#### Usage notes

Object and vocative pronouns are written as a suffix -ma.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [maː]

### Conjunction

má (triggers lenition)
* if
    Synonym: dïa
** 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$^a$12
    Má beid ní di rúnaib do·théi ar menmuin ind ḟir bíis inna ṡuidiu et ad·reig.If there is anything of the mysteries that may come upon the mind of the man who is sitting, and he rises.
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19$^c$20
    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.

#### Usage notes

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.

#### Derived terms

* mani (“if not, unless”)

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

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

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

má
* first/third-person singular present active indicative of mega

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

má
* indefinite accusative singular of már

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈma/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: má

### Adjective

má f sg
* feminine singular of mau

## Ukwa
### Verb

má
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Usaghade
### Verb

má
* love, like

### Further reading

* Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [maː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [maː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [maː˦˥]
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Etymology 1

Picture dictionary :
má
trán
lông mày
lông mi
mắt
mũi
lỗ mũi
má
hàm
miệng
môi
cằm :
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").
This item might be an infixed form (nominalizing *-m-) of the root *ca(ː)ʔ (“to eat”), as suggested in Sidwell (2018).

#### Noun

(classifier cái) má • (𦟐)
* (anatomy) cheek

##### Derived terms

* bạc má
* má đào
* má hồng
* má phấn môi son
* mông má

### Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 媽 (“mother”, SV: ma), ultimately a nursery word. Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895) directly annotates this as kêu theo tiếng Khách ("way of calling from Chinese") and it was also often paired with tía (another Chinese loan) to form tía má.

#### Noun

má • (媽, 𦟐)
* (Southern Vietnam) mother; mom
    Synonyms: mạ, mẹ, mợ, u, bầm, đẻ

##### Derived terms

* ba má
* tía má

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

má • (𥡗)
* (only in compounds) rice seedlings

##### Derived terms

* giấy má
* giống má
* lúa má
* số má
* thuế má