# meza
## Basque
### Etymology

From some reflex of Latin missa (“mass”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mes̻a/ [me.s̻a]
* IPA: (most dialects) /mes̻a/ [me.s̻a]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /mes̺a/ [me.s̺a]
* Rhymes: -es̻a, -a
* Rhymes: -es̻a, -a
* Rhymes: -es̺a, -a
* Hyphenation: me‧za

### Noun

meza inan
* (religion) mass

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “meza”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “meza”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From mezo +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmeza]
* Rhymes: -eza
* Hyphenation: me‧za
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

meza (accusative singular mezan, plural mezaj, accusative plural mezajn)
* middle, central
* medium

#### Derived terms

* mezepoko

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto meza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.za/

### Adjective

meza
* middle, intermediate, central

#### Derived terms

* meze
* mezepoko

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese mesa.

### Noun

meza
* table

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* mesa

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa. Cognate with Bengali মেজ (mej), Hindi मेज़ (mez), and Malayalam മേശ (mēśa).

### Noun

meza f (Hebrew spelling מיזה)
* (countable) table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses) [16th c.]
    Hyponym: mezika
** 1996, Sara Benveniste Benrey, edited by Yossi Benbenisty, Espertando el djudeo espanyol: poemas realidas i philosophia, kantes, sketches, piesas de teatro‎, Yossi Benbenisty, page 280:El etaj de abasho tiene una guertizika delantre, kon siyas i meza i Rivka vistida de un fostan ancho a la Espanyola kon una roza en la sien, asentada, trikotando i asperando a su marido ke es vendedor de limones en el shuk (bazar).The floor below has a small garden inside, with chairs and [a] table, and Rivka wore a wide dress like the Spaniard with a rose on her temple, sitting, crocheting and waiting for her husband, who is a lemon vendor at the market.
** 2003, Sefárdica‎, numbers 14–16, Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí, page 70:La primera koza dunke ke se nota en la kuzina djudeo‐espanyola es la manera turka de azer kada día el arroz, ke se kome en grandes kantidades i no manka ni un día en la meza del djudío proveniente del Impero Otomano.The first thing noted in the Judaeo‐Spanish kitchen is the Turkish style of making rice daily, which is eaten in great quantities and is never absent for one day from the table of the Jew originating from the Ottoman Empire.

### References

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

## Maore Comorian
### Etymology

From Omani Arabic ميز (mēz, “table”), from Persian میز (mêz), although widely claimed to be from Portuguese mesa.

### Noun

meza class 9 (plural meza class 10)
* table (item of furniture)

### References

* “meza” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.

## Sango
### Noun

meza
* table

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /měza/
* Hyphenation: me‧za

### Noun

mèza f (Cyrillic spelling мѐза)
* Alternative form of mèze

#### Declension
### References

* “meza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Verb

meza
* inflection of mecer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛzɑ/
* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Omani Arabic ميز (mēz, “table”), from Persian میز (mêz), although widely claimed to be from Portuguese mesa.

#### Noun

meza class IX (plural meza class X)
* table (item of furniture)

##### Descendants

* → Kamba: mesa
* → Kikuyu: metha
* → Lingala: mésá
* → Luganda: emmeeza
* → Luhya: emesa
* → Luo: mesa
* → Rwanda-Rundi: ameza
* → Tooro: emeeza

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

-meza (infinitive kumeza)
* to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -meza :
| Positive present | -nameza |
| Subjunctive | -meze |
| Negative | -mezi |
| Imperative singular | meza |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kumeza |
| Negative | kutomeza |
Imperatives :
| Singular | meza |
| Plural | mezeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | humeza |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -limeza |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kumeza |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tameza |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tameza |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -simeze |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngemeza |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singemeza |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalimeza |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalimeza |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -memeza |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshameza |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jameza |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kimeza |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipomeza |
| Consecutive | kameza / positive subject concord + -kameza |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kameze |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### References

* ↑ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎, volume 10, number 1, page 8 of 1-10:‘Table’, Sw meza. From OAr mēz (R: 126), of disputed origin. Morano (2019: 332) follows Reinhardt (1894) in stating that this word is from Portuguese mesa, but Persian mēz is a perfect formal fit. Behnstedt & Woidich (2011b: 208) conflate the two etyma but justify it with a supposition that the Persian may be borrowed from the Portuguese, which is rejected by Iranists, and on its face, very unlikely.

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Portuguese mesa (“table”).

### Noun

meza
* table