# مس
## Arabic
### Verb

مَسَّ • (massa) I (first-person singular past مَسِسْتُ (masistu), non-past يَمَسُّ (yamassu), verbal noun مَسّ (mass) or مَسِيس (masīs))
* (transitive) to feel, to touch
* (transitive) to handle, to palpate
* (transitive) to violate (something sacred)
* (transitive) to infringe upon
* (transitive, euphemistic) to cohabit with
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:20:أَنَّى يَكُونُ لِي غُلَامٌ وَلَمْ يَمْسَسْنِي بَشَرٌ وَلَمْ أَكُ بَغِيًّاʔannā yakūnu lī ḡulāmun walam yamsasnī bašarun walam ʔaku baḡiyyanHow can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?
* (transitive) to befall, to hit

#### Descendants

* Maltese: mess
* → French: masser
** → English: massage
** → German: massieren
** → Norwegian Bokmål: massere
** → Dutch: masseren

### Noun

مَسّ • (mass) m
* verbal noun of مَسَّ (massa) (form I)
* touching, touch
* contact
* misfortune, calamity
* attack, fit, frenzy
* insanity, madness

#### Declension
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 588
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “مس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 176
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “مس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1063

## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Persian مس (mes).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /məs/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | mis |
مس (mis)
* copper

#### Derived terms

* مسگەر (misger)
* مسی (misî)
* مسین (misîn)

### References

* Hejar (1990) “مس”, in Henbane borîne‎, Tehran: Soroush, page 808
* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “mis”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 92

## Khalaj
### Noun

مِس (mis) (definite accusative مِسی, plural مِسلَر)
* Arabic spelling of mis (“copper”)

#### Declension
## Malay
### Noun

مس (plural مس-مس or مس٢, informal 1st possessive مسکو, 2nd possessive مسمو, 3rd possessive مسڽ)
* Jawi spelling of mas‎

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic مَسَّ (massa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mass/

#### Verb

مس • (mass) I (non-past يمس (ymass))
* to touch, to feel
    Synonym: قاس (qās)
    ما تمسنيش! ― ma tmassnīš! ― Don't touch me!
* to violate, to infringe
    مسيتي بكرامتي ملي قلتي داك الشي علي قدام العباد كلها.massīti b-karāmti milli qulti dāk eš-šī ʕliyya quddām le-ʕbād kullha.You violated my dignity when you said those things about me in front of them all.

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic مُوسًى (mūsan).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miss/

#### Noun

مس • (miss) m (plural مساس (msās))
* Alternative form of موس (mūs)

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Related to Ancient Greek μίσυ (mísu), a copper-containing mineral in medical writers. Also compares to Avar месед (mesed), Akhvakh мишиди (mišidi), Godoberi мисиди, Botlikh мисиди (misidi), Andi мисиди (misidi), Khvarshi маседи (masedi), Karata месед, мисид, Hunzib месед (mesed), Hinukh месед (mesed), Bagvalal месер (meser), Chamalal мисуд (misud), Tindi мисейи, Bezhta месед (mesed), Tsez месед (mesed), Rutul мисед (mised), Lak муси (musi), Dargwa муси (musi) etc. all meaning “gold”, with a fossilized suffix. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈmis]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mɪ́s]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mɪ́s]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mɪ́s]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mís]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [més]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mís]

#### Noun

مس • (mes)
* copper

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: mis
* → Chagatai: مس (mis)
** Uyghur: مىس (mis)
** Uzbek:
    Cyrillic script: мис (mis)
    Latin script: mis
* → Kazakh: мыс (mys)
* → Khalaj: mis
* → Ottoman Turkish: مس (mıs)
* → Turkmen: mis

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈmas]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mǽs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mǽs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mǽs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mǽs]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mǽs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mǽs]

#### Noun

مس • (mas)
* fetter, shackle

### References

* Schulze, Wolfgang (2013) “Historische und areale Aspekte der Bodenschatz-Terminologie in den ostkaukasischen Sprachen”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎ (in German), volume 17, number 3, →DOI, pages 306–307
* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “مس”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1174b–1175a
* Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname‎ (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 772b
* Zumbroich, Thomas J. (2015) “‘The missī-stained finger-tip of the fair’: A cultural history of teeth and gum blackening in South Asia”, in eJournal of Indian Medicine‎, volume 8, number 1, pages 1–32