# Mac
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mæk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophones: mack, Mack

### Etymology 1

See macc for details.

#### Noun

Mac (plural Macs)
* (US, informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
    Have you got a light, Mac?
** 1998 May 24, Bearak, Barry, “The Nation: Parallel Universe; Listen Up, Out There. Here's What Cabbies Think of You.”, in The New York Times‎, section 4, page 1:TIME was, the stereotypical New York cabdriver was a gabby if slightly gruff man with a Brooklyn accent who knew every pothole in every street in every borough and greeted people with the world-weary query, "Where to, Mac?"

##### Synonyms

* (person): John

##### Translations
#### Proper noun

Mac (plural Macs)
* A diminutive of the male given name Max.
* (US, Canada) A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".
    Synonym: Macca (UK and Australia)

##### Derived terms

* Mac Town

### Etymology 2

Informal diminutive of Macintosh, later adopted by Apple as a trademark.

#### Noun

Mac (plural Macs)
* A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).
** 1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 37, page 46:Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.
** 1991, “Breaking Communications Barriers”, in Compute!, volume 13, number 9, pages 28–31:Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run on earlier models, since each Mac program has a similar interface.
** 1993, “The New Microprocessors Powerchips”, in Popular Science, volume 243, number 1, page 58:Apple, IBM, and Motorola have teamed up to produce this 32-bit chip that will be used in future Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs. PowerPC systems will run Mac or Unix programs, and possibly Windows software in the future.
** 1993, “The Newest Appliance”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 115, number 21, page 90:If you invest the time to learn one Windows or Mac program, you'll automatically have mastered the basic skills to use hundreds of others.
** 2007, “Uninspiring Vista”, in Technology Review, volume 110, number 1, pages 72–4:As this shift accelerates, finding software that works with a particular operating system will be less of a concern. People will be able to base decisions about which OS to use strictly on merit, and on personal preference. For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get to work, at long last I choose the Mac.
** 2008, Glenn Derene, “Mac VS. PC”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 185, number 5, page 86:Oddly, the big difference didn't come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people.

##### Coordinate terms

* PC, personal computer, home computer, desktop computer, personal workstation, graphic workstation, graphics workstation

##### Derived terms

* Macified, Mac-ified
* Mac-like, Maclike
* Macolyte
* Macquarium

### Etymology 3

A shortening.

#### Proper noun

Mac
* (informal) McMaster University

### Etymology 4
#### Proper noun

Mac
* (Singapore, slang) McDonald's
    Synonym: (Singapore) Macs

### Anagrams

* ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

## Irish
### Etymology

See mac.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mˠak/

### Noun

Mac m (genitive singular Mhic)
* Alternative letter-case form of mac (“son”) used in surnames.

#### Usage notes

* Forms with the definite article are not found.
* The form Mac usually triggers no mutation, but some surnames show lenition of a following consonant.
* The form Mhic triggers lenition of a following consonant, although c and g are often unlenited here.

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
Mac
vocative
a Mhic
genitive
Mic
dative
Mac
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an Mac
genitive
an Mhic
dative
leis an Mac don Mhac :

#### Coordinate terms

* Nic

#### Descendants

* English: Mac-, Mc-

### 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) “Mac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Malay
### Etymology

Formerly used in the form مرچ (march), borrowed from English March, from Middle English March, Marche, from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mat͡ʃ]
* Rhymes: -at͡ʃ

### Proper noun

Mac (Jawi spelling مچ)
* March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
    Synonym: Maret (Indonesia)

### See also

* Januari
* Februari
* Mac, Maret
* April
* Mei
* Jun
* Julai
* Ogos
* September
* Oktober
* November
* Disember

### References

* ↑ Wilkinson, R. J. (Richard James), 1867-1941 (1901) A Malay-English dictionary‎, Kelly & Walsh Ltd, retrieved 11 February 2025, page 644

### Further reading

* “Mac” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Swahili
### Proper noun

Mac
* Abbreviation of Machi.
    Coordinate terms: Jan, Feb, Apr, Jun, Jul, Ago, Sep, Okt, Nov, Des