# masa
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

masa (uncountable) (More fully, masa paper)
* (art) A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting

### Etymology 2

From Spanish masa (“dough”). Doublet of mass.

#### Noun

masa (usually uncountable, plural masas)
* (US) Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
** 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, quoting Fermín Núñez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:The chef Fermín Núñez of Suerte, in Austin, Texas, considers masa “the canvas of what Mexican cooking is all about.” “Without masa,” he said, “there’s no tortillas, and, without tortillas, there’s no tacos!”

### Anagrams

* -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Sama, aams, amas, maas

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmasa/
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

### Adjective

masa
* too much, too many
    Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

### Adverb

masa
* too (to an excessive degree)
* excessively, too much
    Synonyms: masiau, demasiau

### Noun

masa f
* mass (quantity of matter)
    masa critica ― critical mass
* dough
    Synonym: pasta

#### Derived terms

* biomasa
* en massa
* massa d'aire

### Further reading

* Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ماسه, from Bulgarian ма́са (mása), from Romanian masă, from Latin mēnsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɑˈsɑ]
* Hyphenation: ma‧sa
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)
* (somewhat high-style) table
    Synonym: stol

#### Derived terms

* masaüstü

### Further reading

* “masa” in Obastan.com.

## Balinese
### Romanization

masa
* Romanization of ᬫᬲ
* Romanization of ᬫᬵᬲ

## Bambara
### Noun

masa
* king

#### Derived terms

* masaden
* masafugala
* masajamana
* masakɛ
* masakɛjamana
* masamuso
* masasigilan
* masaso
* masaya

#### References

* Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish masa.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ma‧sa
* IPA: /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]

### Noun

masa
* dough
    Synonym: tapay

#### Derived terms

* magmasa
* masahon

## Coatepec Nahuatl
### Noun

masa
* deer.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -asa

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

masa f (relational adjective masový)
* mass (a large body of individuals, especially persons)
    masa lidí ― mass of people

##### Related terms

* masiv
* masivní

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

masa
* inflection of maso:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Further reading

* “masa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “masa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “masa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.

### Noun

masa f
* Mass

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin massa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese massa and Spanish masa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmasa̝/

### Noun

masa f (plural masas)
* dough
    Synonym: amoado
** 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 123:logo todos ordenaron que fesesen as paandeiras o pan do dia, triigo de tres onças, ben apostado e ben linpo e de boa masaafter this everyone ordered the bakers to make the daily bread, wheat of three ounces, well prepared and very clean and of good dough
* mortar
    Synonyms: argamasa, morteiro
* (Physics) mass

#### Derived terms

* amasar
* maseira

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “massa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “massa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “masa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “masa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “masa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Hopi
### Noun

masa
* wing (body part of an animal)

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse masa, from Proto-Germanic *masōną. Cognate with English maze.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmaːsa/
* Rhymes: -aːsa

### Verb

masa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative masaði, supine masað)
* (intransitive) to chat, to chatter

#### Conjugation
### Anagrams

* sama

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmasa]
* Hyphenation: ma‧sa
* Homophone: massa
* Rhymes: -sa, -a

### Etymology 1

From Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).
* The sense of doubt or disbelief expression is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦩꦺꦴꦱꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (mosok), variant of ꦩꦱ (masa, “disbelief expression”, literally “certainly not”), from Old Javanese masa (“certainly not”) (cf. salah masa (“at the wrong time”)).

#### Noun

masa (plural masa-masa)
* period,
** history: period of time seen as coherent entity.
** length of time.
** length of time during which something repeats.
* time,
** inevitable passing of events.
** quantity of availability in time.
** time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
** particular moment or hour.
** measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
** numerical indication of a particular moment in time.
* (geology) era

##### Synonyms

* kala
* waktu

##### Derived terms

* masa depan
* masa lalu
* semasa
* semasa-masa

#### Adverb

masa
* words to express distrust and rhetorical in nature
* express the speaker's doubt or disbelief about something that they have just heard, learned, or noticed

#### Alternative forms

* masak

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “a weight of gold”).

#### Adverb

masa
* (archaeology) unit of measurement of weight for gold and silver

### Further reading

* “masa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

masa
* Rōmaji transcription of まさ

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Sephardi Hebrew מַצָּה (masá), from Biblical Hebrew מַצָּה (maṩå).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈsa/

### Noun

masa f (Hebrew spelling מצה, plural masot)
* matzah
* dough

## Latvian
### Noun

masa f (4th declension)
* (physics) mass
* mass, quantity, amount
* mass, body, bulk, blob
* (in the plural) the masses
* (genitive plural) mass, large-scale

#### Declension
## Malay
### Etymology

Probably from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /masa/
** (Johor-Riau) IPA: [ma.sə]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
** (Baku) IPA: [ma.sa]
*** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -sa, -a
* Hyphenation: ma‧sa

### Noun

masa (Jawi spelling ماس, plural masa-masa, informal 1st possessive masaku, 2nd possessive masamu, 3rd possessive masanya)
* Time:
    Synonyms: waktu, kala
** Inevitable passing of events.
** Quantity of availability in time.
** Time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
** Particular moment or hour.
** Measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
** Numerical indication of a particular moment in time.

#### Affixations

* pemasa
* pemasaan
* semasa
* semasa-masa

#### Compounds

* dari semasa ke semasa
* masa capaian
* masa depan / masa hadapan / masa datang
* masa karbon
* masa kecil
* masa kering
* masa kerja
* masa lampau
* masa lapang / masa lega
* masa peralihan
* masa Permian
* masa rehat
* separuh masa

### Conjunction

masa (Jawi spelling ماس, formal form semasa)
* (informal) During the time that; when.
    Synonyms: waktu, bila
    Masa aku tulis karangan tu, aku tak ingat pun kena lebih daripada 250 patah perkataan.When I was writing the essay, I didn't know that it had to be longer than 250 words.

### Further reading

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

## Ngaju
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hasaq.

### Verb

masa
* to sharpen

## Northern Sami
### Pronoun

masa
* illative singular of mii

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* maset
* maste (simple past)
* mast (past participle)

### Verb

masa
* inflection of mase:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* mase

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɑːsɑ/

### Verb

masa (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative masa/mas)
* to nag
** 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge:[…] sidan tok han til aa masa um ei Gullkedja, som han visste, ho skulde hava; han vilde kaupa da Halsgullet, um da var aldri so dyrt […] […] then he started nagging about a gold chain, that he knew she had; he wanted to buy that necklace, no matter the price […]

### References

* “masa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Javanese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.sa/
* Rhymes: -sa
* Homophones: māsa, māṣa
* Hyphenation: ma‧sa

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

masa
* Alternative spelling of māsa (“month; time”)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adjective

masa
* certainly not
* it is impossible

##### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦩꦁꦱ (mangsa)
* → Balinese: ᬫᬲ (masa)

### Further reading

* "masa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Ometepec Nahuatl
### Noun

masa
* deer

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* massa (Middle Polish)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin māssa. First attested in 1534. Compare Silesian masa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈma.sa/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈma.sa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

### Noun

masa f (related adjective masowy)
* (countable) mass (shapeless substance that is flexible and allows itself to be formed)
    Synonym: bryła
* (uncountable, colloquial) mass (large number or amount)
    Synonym: ogrom
* (countable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter)
* (electricity) ground (point against which potentials are measured in an electrical or electronic system)
* (countable) mass (large object or objects seen in faint outline)
* (uncountable, obsolete, property law) property remaining after the deceased testator or after the bankruptcy of a merchant or industrialist, subject to division among creditors or heirs
* (obsolete, uncountable, metallurgy) a type of greasy sand used in the production of steel castings
* (countable, obsolete, biliards) a billiard cue with a wide butt on the thinner end for better hitting the ball
* (countable, Middle Polish) mixture
    Synonym: mieszanina
* (in the plural) masses (people; especially a large number of people; the general population)

#### Derived terms

* masami
* masę
* biomasa
* ciemna masa
* masa atomowa
* masa cząsteczkowa
* masa krytyczna
* masa plastyczna
* masa spadkowa
* masa upadłościowa
* masa właściwa

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: masa
* → Slovincian: masa

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), masa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 33 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “masa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “masa”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
* ↑ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “massa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “masa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 235, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 664

### Further reading

* masa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* masy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* masa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* “MASA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.07.2019
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 892

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French masser.

#### Verb

a masa (third-person singular present masează, past participle masat) 1st conjugation
* to massage

##### Related terms

* masaj
* masare
* masat (past participle of masa)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

masa f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of masă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

màsa f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀са)
* mass

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /máːsa/

### Noun

mȃsa f
* mass (large quantity; sum)

#### Inflection
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa
* Homophone: (Latin America) maza

### Etymology 1

From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

#### Noun

masa f (plural masas)
* (food) dough
    Synonym: pasta
* (physics) mass
* drove (large amount)
    en masa ― in droves

##### Derived terms

* amasar
* baño de masas
* bola de masa
* con las manos en la masa
* en masa
* espectro de masas
* espectrómetro de masas
* índice de masa corporal
* masa atómica
* masa crítica
* masa en reposo
* masa madre
* masa molar
* masa molecular
* masa solar
* masar
* masilla
* masita
* masudo
* medios de comunicación de masas
* poner a masa
* poner las manos en la masa
* producción en masa

##### Related terms

* masivo

##### Descendants

* → Bikol Central: masa
* → English: masa
* → Tagalog: masa

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

masa
* inflection of masar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “masa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From a dialectal masa (“move or work slowly”). Probably sound symbolic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɑːsa/
* Rhymes: -²ɑːsa

### Verb

masa (present masar, preterite masade, supine masat, imperative masa)
* (reflexive) to move slowly
    Jag masade mig ur sängenI dragged myself out of bed

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

### References

* masa sig in Svensk ordbok (SO)

### Anagrams

* Maas

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish masa, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

#### Noun

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ)
* dough
* people; the masses

##### Derived terms

* minasa
* pangmasa

##### Related terms

* masilya

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मास (māsa). Compare Tausug masa.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

#### Noun

masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
* time; epoch; season
    Synonyms: panahon, salukoy, sagsag

##### Derived terms

* kamasahan

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmasa/ [ˈmaː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -asa
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

#### Verb

masa (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
* Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to read

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /maˈsaʔ/ [mɐˈsaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

#### Verb

masâ (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
* Apheretic form of bumasa (infinitive): to make something wet

### Further reading

* “masa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* sama, amas, asam

## Tausug
### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay masa.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /masa/ [maˈsa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ma‧sa

### Noun

masa (Sulat Sūg spelling مَسَ)
* era, epoch, age
    Synonym: jaman

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ماسه, borrowed from Bulgarian маса (masa, “table”), from Romanian masă.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɑˈsɑ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

masa (definite accusative masayı, plural masalar)
* table

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
masa
masalar
definite accusative
masayı
masaları
dative
masaya
masalara
locative
masada
masalarda
ablative
masadan
masalardan
genitive
masanın
masaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
masam
masalarım
2nd singular
masan
masaların
3rd singular
masası
masaları
1st plural
masamız
masalarımız
2nd plural
masanız
masalarınız
3rd plural
masaları
masaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
masamı
masalarımı
2nd singular
masanı
masalarını
3rd singular
masasını
masalarını
1st plural
masamızı
masalarımızı
2nd plural
masanızı
masalarınızı
3rd plural
masalarını
masalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
masama
masalarıma
2nd singular
masana
masalarına
3rd singular
masasına
masalarına
1st plural
masamıza
masalarımıza
2nd plural
masanıza
masalarınıza
3rd plural
masalarına
masalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
masamda
masalarımda
2nd singular
masanda
masalarında
3rd singular
masasında
masalarında
1st plural
masamızda
masalarımızda
2nd plural
masanızda
masalarınızda
3rd plural
masalarında
masalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
masamdan
masalarımdan
2nd singular
masandan
masalarından
3rd singular
masasından
masalarından
1st plural
masamızdan
masalarımızdan
2nd plural
masanızdan
masalarınızdan
3rd plural
masalarından
masalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
masamın
masalarımın
2nd singular
masanın
masalarının
3rd singular
masasının
masalarının
1st plural
masamızın
masalarımızın
2nd plural
masanızın
masalarınızın
3rd plural
masalarının
masalarının :

#### References

* ↑ Eren, Hasan (1999) “masa”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 289
* ↑ Gianguido Manzelli (2017) “The Lexical Influence of Italian on Turkish”, in Piera Molinelli, editor, Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 174.

## Venetan
### Etymology

Compare Italian massa.

### Noun

masa f (plural mase)
* mass

### Adverb

masa
* too much
* very