mase

See also: Mase, masé, and måse

English

Etymology

Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.

Pronunciation

Verb

mase (third-person singular simple present mases, present participle masing, simple past and past participle mased)

  1. To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.

See also

  • Mase is also an obsolete alternative spelling of maze.

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

mase

  1. locative singular of maso

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːsə/, [ˈmæːsə]

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)

  1. crush
  2. squash
  3. crunch
  4. press, squeeze
  5. jostle
  6. slog
  7. struggle

Japanese

Romanization

mase

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ませ

Kurdish

Noun

mase f

  1. table, desk

Synonyms

Middle Dutch

Noun

māse f

  1. Meuse (a river)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “mase”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

Probably from masen; further etymology is disputed.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːz(ə)/

Noun

mase (plural mases)

  1. Something that causes bewilderment or mystery (e.g. a wild fancy; a confused notion)
  2. Something that causes misleadingness or chicanery.
  3. (rare, later ME) A maze or labyrinth.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

Noun

mase

  1. Alternative form of messe

Etymology 3

From Old French mace.

Noun

mase

  1. Alternative form of mace (“mace”)

Etymology 4

Probably from amased.

Verb

mase

  1. Alternative form of masen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mase (imperative mas, present tense maser, simple past masa or maset or maste, past participle masa or maset or mast)

  1. to nag

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mase (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative mas/mase)

  1. Alternative form of masa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maisǭ.

Noun

māse f (nominative plural māsan)

  1. titmouse

Declension

Spanish

Verb

mase

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of masar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of masar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of masar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of masar.

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ma‧se

Etymology 1

Related to Persian ماهی‎ (mâhi).

Noun

mase

  1. fish
  2. (astronomy, astrology) Pisces

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish masa.

Noun

mase

  1. table
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