# masker
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmæskə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɑːskə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder”) (compare Middle English bimalscren (“to bewitch”)), from Old English *malscrian (attested in derivative malscrung (“enchantment, charm”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *malskaz (“haughty”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, crush, grind”). Cognate with Middle Dutch malsch (“headstrong, zealous”). More at mask.

#### Verb

masker (third-person singular simple present maskers, present participle maskering, simple past and past participle maskered)
* (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To render giddy or senseless
** 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:To masker their troubled heads the more, hee assaileth them with a great shout and maine violence.
** 2000, Paul Salzman, Early Modern Women's Writing:He is so, for he is not one that sets forth to the wars with great resolutions and hopes, and returns with maskered fears, and despairs; neither is he like those that take more care, and are more industrious to get gay clothes, and fine feathers, [...]
* (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To be bewildered.
* (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To choke; stifle.
* (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To decay; rust.

##### Synonyms

* (render giddy): confuse, bewilder, stupefy

### Etymology 2

From mask +‎ -er.

#### Noun

masker (plural maskers)
* One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
** 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […] .
** 2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries, →ISBN:Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.
* That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
    Coordinate term: maskee

##### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:masker.

##### Derived terms

* antimasker
* pro-masker

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Makers, Marske, kermas, makers, markes, remask

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

Inherited from Dutch masker.

### Noun

masker (plural maskers)
* mask

## Danish
### Noun

masker c
* indefinite plural of maske

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑs.kər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mas‧ker

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mascher, from Italian maschera.

#### Noun

masker n (plural maskers, diminutive maskertje n)
* mask
    Tijdens het carnaval droeg ze een kleurrijk masker om haar identiteit te verbergen.During the carnival, she wore a colorful mask to conceal her identity.

##### Derived terms

* dodenmasker
* gezichtsmasker
* ontmaskeren

##### Related terms

* maskeren

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: masker

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

masker
* inflection of maskeren:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* kamers, makers

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch masker, from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maskər/
* Hyphenation: mas‧ker

### Noun

maskêr (plural masker-masker)
* mask, a cover, or partial cover, for the face
** used for disguise
    Synonym: topeng
** (medicine) used for protection
* (colloquial) Short for masker wajah (“facial mask”).

### Further reading

* “masker” 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.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

masker m or f
* indefinite plural of maske

### Verb

masker
* imperative of maskere

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* maskar m or f

### Noun

masker f
* indefinite plural of maske (Etymology 1)

### Noun

masker m or f
* indefinite feminine plural of maske (Etymology 2)

## Swedish
### Noun

masker
* indefinite plural of mask

### Anagrams

* smaker