# mah
## Translingual
### Symbol

mah
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marshallese.

## English
### Etymology 1
#### Determiner

mah
* (African-American Vernacular, Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of my.
** 2014 June 26, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Streetpass Arena:Adventurer: 'AFTER YEARS OF ADVENTURING... I HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE STREETPASS ARENA. ONCE I REST MAH HOOFS, I'M GOING TO RECORD MY SECRET BATTLE TECHNIQUE.'

### Etymology 2

From Cantonese 嘛 (maa3).

#### Alternative forms

* ma

#### Pronunciation

* (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA: /mɑː˧/

#### Particle

mah (Manglish, Singlish)
* Asserts that there is a straightforward or self-evident reason for something.
    — The plants are all dying already. — No one here to water them mah...
** 2003, ANGELL, “SIA PILOT ISSUE”, in soc.culture.singapore‎ (Usenet):[…] Alternatively train SBS bus drivers to become pilots also since they are already bus captains. Anyone can become a pilot mah. Its so easy. Everybody should give it try-but not with me on board.
** 2014, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Singapore Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 89:Especially today—we holiday, mah, so don’t bring them to town until tomorrow.
** 2018 July 13, Shaun Tan, quoting Kurt Tay, “Does Someone Like Kurt Tay Deserve To Be A Father?”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 9 August 2024:In response, I ask if he thinks that his future child would be embarrassed about the online reputation that he has built for himself after all these years. “Why? All of this is just acting mah, I got nothing to be ashamed about.”
** 2024 March 28, Benjamin Tan, quoting Ursula Soh, “In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore”, in ricemedia.co‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2024:If I’m running around for errands, I want to look cute also mah. I used to wear shorts, but now I’d rather not. It’ll look like I’ve got thousands of cat scratches.

#### See also

* (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, lor, meh, one, sia, what

#### References

* Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction, →ISBN
* Lim, Lisa with Wee, Lionel (2004) “Reduplication and discourse particles”, in Singapore English: A grammatical description, →ISBN, page 125

### Etymology 3

From Mandarin 嗎／吗 (ma) or Cantonese 嗎／吗 (maa$^5$).

#### Alternative forms

* ma

#### Pronunciation

* (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA: /mɑː˦/

#### Particle

mah (Manglish, Singlish)
* (colloquial, Chinese Malaysian and Singaporean) Used at the end of an affirmative declarative sentence to change it into a yes-no question.
** 2024 December 8, endlssorrow, “U guys bring smart watch oversea mah”, in HardwareZone Forums‎:Coz must charge daily lei

### Anagrams

* HAM, HMA, Ham, MHA, ham

## Besisi
### Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *səmaaʔ (“human”).

### Noun

mah
* human
* people

#### Derived terms

* Mah Meri

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch maag.

### Noun

mah (plural mah-mah)
* stomach

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination.
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: mah

### Interjection

mah
* an expression of doubt or uncertainty
* an expression of disapproval or resignation

### References

* ↑ mah in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* ahm

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑːx/

### Verb

māh
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of mīgan

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxъ, from Proto-Slavic *maxati.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mâːx/

### Noun

mȃh m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑х)
* swing, wave, sweep (motion)
* moment, instant
    Synonyms: čȁs, trȅn
    U taj mah. ― At that instant.

#### Declension
### References

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

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /máːx/
* Rhymes: -aːx
* Hyphenation: mah
* Homophone: mach

#### Noun

mȃh m inan
* moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)
    Synonyms: mahovina, mahovje, meh
* (geography) raised bog
* (regional) bog, marsh
    Synonyms: barje, morost
* (hunting) velvet (fine fur on a deer's antlers)
* (rare) down, fluff
    Synonyms: puh, puhec, puhek

##### Declension

* in singular also

##### Derived terms

* mahovína
* mahovȋt
* mahȏvje
* planinski mah
* šotni mah

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /máx/, /máːx/
* Rhymes: -ax, -aːx
* Hyphenation: mah
* Homophone: mach

#### Noun

mȁh or mȃh m inan
* gerund of máhniti
* (obsolete) growth, development
    Synonyms: razmah, razmahnitev, omah, polet, procvit, razcvet, razvetje, razcvit, razrast, vzmah, zamah
* (archaic) time (an instance or occurrence)
* (obsolete) moment, instant
    Synonyms: trenutek, hip, moment, tren, trenutje

##### Derived terms

* mah na mah
* mah na pah
* na en mah
* na mȁh
* na ves mah
* namȁh
* omȁh
* premȁh
* razmȁh
* ubiti dve muhi na en mah
* uboj na mah
* v en mah
* v isti mah
* vzmȁh
* z enim mahom
* zamȁh

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English Mach.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /máːx/
* Rhymes: -aːx
* Hyphenation: mah
* Homophone: mach

#### Noun

mȃh m inan
* (physics) Mach (ratio of the speed)
    Synonym: mach

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

Might be from German gemach (“slowly, easy”), from Old High German gimah (“calm, comfortable”). Compare with more common version gmȃh.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /máːx/
* Rhymes: -aːx
* Hyphenation: mah
* Homophone: mach

#### Noun

mȃh m inan
* (obsolete, rare) peace, quietness
    Synonyms: mir, tišina, gmah, pokoj, spokoj, blaženi mir, idilični mir, mirnst, molk, nebeški mir, nemota, pokojnost, spokojnost, sveti mir
    Antonyms: hrup, hrum, hrušč, hrumot, hrupot, rumel, šunder, tumult

##### Declension
#### Interjection

mȃh
* (obsolete, rare) quiet, shut up
    Synonyms: tiho, tišina, mir, gmah

### See also

* šota
* močvirje
* mahanje
* mahati

### Further reading

* “mah”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “mah”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Sumerian
### Romanization

mah
* Romanization of 𒈤 (maḫ)

## Sundanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Sundanese ma (“marker of emphasis”)

### Particle

mah
* unique marker of emphasis, often untranslatable
    Abdi mah asalna ti Ciamis.I [the topic, which we are talking about] am from Ciamis.
    Kamari mah abdi ka Singapur.Yesterday, I went to Singapore.
    Poé ieu mah jigana bakal hujan.It looks like it will rain today. (literally, "As for today, it looks like it will rain".)

#### Usage notes

* Note that mah has no direct counterpart in both English and Indonesian. Mah is used as a focus marker to introduce a new information within a conversation or compare existing information.

### References

* ↑ Aditia Gunawan, Evi Fuji Fauziyah (2021) “The particle ma in Old Sundanese”, in Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, volume 22, number 1, pages 207-223
* ↑ Deanty Rumandang Bulan (2018) “Sundanese emphasis particles téh, téa, and mah”, in Metamorfosis (in Indonesian), volume 11, number 1, pages 10–14

## Unami
### Particle

mah
* past tense marker
    Lòkëwe mah utènink nta.Yesterday, I went to town.

### References

* Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “mah”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project