mas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mas"

Languages (42)

Translingual • English

---

Afrikaans • Albanian • Asturian • Bikol Central • Catalan • Czech • Danish • Franco-Provençal • French • Haitian Creole • Iban • Icelandic • Indonesian • Italian • Ladino • Latin • Macanese • Malay • Middle English • Northern Sami • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Occitan • Old Galician-Portuguese • Old Spanish • Papiamentu • Polish • Portuguese • Rohingya • Romani • Romanian • Scottish Gaelic • Somali • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Tok Pisin • Tsuut'ina • Welsh • Woleaian

---

Page categories

Translingual

Etymology

• (metrology): From m- +‎ as.

Symbol

mas

1. (metrology) milliarcsecond
2. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maasai.

English

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 520:

     When she was pregnant with her second child they ran away to France and played at being artists in a secluded mas near Avignon – two months of bliss.

Etymology 2

Noun

mas

1. plural of ma

Etymology 3

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.
   • 2017 December 22, Shane Superville, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:

     Ward, who was best known for his winning portrayal of George Bailey’s Cylindul the Sun God from the Golden City of Palengue, became a staple on the mas circuit up until the 1990s, lending his support to the likes of Peter Minshall and others.

   • 2017 September 28, “Neville Aming Passes Away At 96 In T&T”, in Bernews:

     Aming was a recipient of the Humming Bird Silver for his contribution to the vibrancy of T&T mas in 1996.

   • 2016 February 7, Michelle Loubon, “Taking a Carnival tour”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:

     Belmont masman and wire bender Richard Lera displays a headpiece at his Norfolk Street mas camp.

Anagrams

• 'ams, MSA, Sam., ASM, AMS, sam, sma, SMA, Sam, S. Am., A.M.s, SAM, asm

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas (plural maste)

1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

Derived terms

• hoofmas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mat

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Verb

mas (aorist mata, participle matur)

1. to measure
2. to estimate, assess
3. to consider

Derived terms

• matem
• matje
• matshëm

Related terms

• mot

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ̊ (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek πός (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic по (po, “behind, after”)).

Preposition

mas (+ ablative)

1. behind, after, beyond
2. at
3. over
4. against

Adverb

mas

1. behind, after
2. hence

Derived terms

• masi (Gheg)
• masanej (Gheg)

Related terms

• pas
• mbasi
• përmasë
• mbas

Asturian

Noun

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

Conjunction

mas

1. but

   Synonym: pero

   Mas nun hai qu'estrayese

   But don't get distracted

2. only, other than, no more than (used with negative)

   Nun había mas unos vecinos

   There wasn't anyone other than some neighbours

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]

Particle

mas (Basahan spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality

   Synonym: urog

   Mas dakula ako kisa saiya.

   I am bigger than him/her.

   Mas mahal an talong digdi kompara sa balyong merkado.

   The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmas]

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

Derived terms

• Masdenverge
• Masdevall
• masia

Related terms

• masover

References

• “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: maz

Noun

mas

1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

1. bother, trouble

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• màs (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of més (“more”).

Conjunction

mas (ORB, broad)

1. but

References

• mais in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mas in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/, /mas/ ~ /mɑs/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

Further reading

• “mas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”).

Noun

mas

1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”).

Noun

mas

1. mass

Iban

Etymology

From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas

1. gold (element)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

Declension

Declension of mas (sg-only neuter)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	mas	masið
accusative	mas	masið
dative	masi	masinu
genitive	mass	massins

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦩꦱ꧀ (mas, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, mās, ĕmas, hĕmas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronoun

mas

1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

• mas (used for males)
• mbak (used for females)
• kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
• Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
• saudari (used for women of equal status)
• bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
• ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
• sampeyan (Central & East Java, gender-neutral)
• panjenengan (Central Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of emas (“gold”)

Derived terms

• mas kawin

Further reading

• “mas” 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.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of ma.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

Adverb

mas (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאס)

1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)

   Antonym: menos

   • 2019 November 27, Eliz Gatenyo, “Las Lentejas Del Onkl Izak”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     La madre de mi esfuegra Lea, teniya un ermano muncho mas grande de eya ke se yamava Izak. Izak era el mas grande de los 5 ermanos i era muy seriozo.

     My mother-in-law's mother Lea had a brother much bigger than her whose name was Izak. Izak was the biggest of the three brothers and was very serious.

2. (with definite article) most; -est (used to make superlatives)

   Antonym: menos

   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[2], numbers 11–34, page 105:

     La fiesta de Soucoth que el Pentatioco (cinco livros de la ley) llama Hag Aasif, la fiesta de la recolta, es la mas importante y la mas alegre por un pueblo esencialmente agricultor segun era el pueblo de Israel.

     The festival of Sukkot that the Pentateuch calls Hag Aasif, the harvest festival, is the most important and the most joyful for an essentially agricultural people as were the people of Israel.

Latin

Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), whence Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“young man”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young girl”), and Old Armenian մարի (mari, “female bird, hen”). But this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

It has been connected with masturbor and with mālus (“pole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maːs/, [mäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mas/, [mäs]

Noun

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

1. male
2. man

   Synonym: vir

Usage notes

Mās means male, in contrast to fēmina (“female”); thus, it means man (in contrast to woman) when used in reference to an adult human, but it can also be used to refer to male animals, deities, or even plants. "Man" in the sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, and in the sense of “(free) adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	mās	marēs
genitive	maris	marium marum
dative	marī	maribus
accusative	marem	marēs marīs
ablative	mare	maribus
vocative	mās	marēs

Coordinate terms

• fēmina (“female”)

Derived terms

• marītō
• marītus
• masculīnus
• masculus
• sēmimās

Adjective

mās (neuter mare); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. male, masculine, manly

   Synonyms: masculus, masculīnus, virīlis

   • Apuleius Madaurensis, De Mundo 20.1:

     Sic mare et femineum secus iungitur, ac diversus utriusque sexus ex dissimilibus simile animal facit

     Thus the male and female sex is joined together, and the different sex of each makes a similar animal from the dissimilar.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	mās	mare		marēs	maria
genitive	maris			marium marum
dative	marī			maribus
accusative	marem	mare		marēs marīs	maria
ablative	marī			maribus
vocative	maris	mare		marēs	maria

Further reading

• “mas” in volume 8, column 421, line 74 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    
  • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    
  • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    
  • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    
  • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit
    

Macanese

Alternative forms

• maz, mâz

Etymology

From Portuguese mas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɐʃ/, /mɐs/

Conjunction

mas

1. but

   Mas vôs sábi qui ancusa iou tâ papiâ.

   But you know what I'm talking about.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with más.

Malay

Chemical element
Au
Previous: platinum (Pt)
Next: perak cergas (Hg)

Alternative forms

• emas
• امس
• مس

Etymology

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as

Noun

mas (Jawi spelling امس)

1. Alternative form of emas

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman masse.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

Northern Sami

Pronoun

mas

1. locative singular of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mas

1. imperative of masa

Noun

mas n (definite singular maset, uncountable)

1. nagging (constant complaint)

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

mas m (plural mases)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan-speaking and Catalan-speaking territories.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of mais.

Conjunction

mas

1. but; yet
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     Pois que a santa dona o fillo do Conde recebeu,
     de o crïar muit' apóst' e mui ben muito se trameteu;
     mas un irmão que o Cond' havía, mui falss' e sandeu,
     Pediu-lle séu amor; e porque ela mal llo acolleu,
     degolou-ll' o meninno ũa noit' e meteu
     ll' o cuitélo na mão pola fazer perder.
     Quenas coitas deste mundo ben quisér sofrer…

     Given that the holy woman received a son from the Count, someone intervened to make him very elegant and very well treated, but the Count's very dishonest and silly brother asked for her love, and because she protected him poorly, he slit the boy's throat that night and put the knife in the hand to be rid of it. The world's afflictions may well tolerate him…

Descendants

• Portuguese: mas

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis.

Adverb

mas

1. more; -er (used to make comparisons)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 82r:

     Al dia ſeteno dixieró lo ellos aſáſó. Q́ es mas dulce q́ la miel o q́l es mas fuerte del leon. dixo ſápſó. Si nó araſſedes có mẏ uaq́ella. nó ſoltariedes mi adeuináçiella.

     [Al día seteno dixieron lo ellos a Sansón: “Que es mas dulce que la miel, o qual es mas fuerte del león?” Dixo Sansón: “Si no arassedes con mi vaqiella, non soltariedes mi adevinanciella”.]

     On the seventh day they said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey, or what is stronger than a lion?” Samson said: “Had you not ploughed with my heifer, you would not have solved my little riddle”.

Conjunction

mas

1. but; yet

   Synonym: pero

   • 1492, Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor 151:

     Lo cual yo no niego, pero atrevime a ello pensando que me harías merced no segund quien la pedía, mas segund tú, que la haviés de dar

     I do not deny this, but I dared to do it thinking that you would forgive me, not because of who was asking for forgiveness, but because it is proper of you, who had to do it

Descendants

• Ladino: ma, mas, מאס, מה
• Spanish: mas, más

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mas”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 329

Papiamentu

Adverb

mas

1. most

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

Noun

mas f

1. genitive plural of masa

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Doublet of mais.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mas/, /majs/ [maɪ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mas/, /majs/ [maɪ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /maʃ/, /majʃ/ [maɪ̯ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐʃ/

• Homophone: mais (Brazil, with intrusive /j/)
• Hyphenation: mas

Conjunction

mas

2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

   Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto

   O livro é curto, mas bom.

   The book is short, but good.

   Somos preguiçosos mas fazemos o que precisa de ser feito.

   We are lazy but we do what needs to be done.

4. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)

   Fomos recebidos não com aplausos, mas pedradas.

   We were not received with applause, but [with] rocks.

6. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)

   Todos alunos reprovaram em matemática, mas ninguém estudou mesmo.

   All students flunked mathematics, but no one studied really.

8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

   Mas que porcaria!

   What the heck!

   Mas que diabos vocês estão fazendo aqui?

   What the hell are you doing here?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Derived terms

• mas é
• mas sim
• mas também

Descendants

• Macanese: mas

Adverb

mas (not comparable)

2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how

   Synonyms: e como, e

   Este livro é bom, mas bom mesmo.

   This book is good, really good.

   Os ladrões correram, mas correram.

   The thieves ran, and how they ran.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

   Quero que você termine isso, sem mas nem porquês.

   I want you to finish this, no buts or whys.

Derived terms

• deixar de mas
• sem mas nem meio mas

Rohingya

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀰𑁆𑀘 (maśca).

Noun

mas

1. fish

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀲 (maṃsa), from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mēms-ó-m, from *mḗms.

Noun

mas m (plural masa)

1. meat

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[4], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mansum, from mansus.

Noun

mas n (plural masuri)

1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mas	masul		masuri	masurile
genitive-dative	mas	masului		masuri	masurilor
vocative	masule			masurilor

Related terms

• mânea

Verb

mas

1. past participle of mânea

Scottish Gaelic

Conjunction

mas

1. if is

Usage notes

• This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).

  mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

Somali

Noun

mas m

1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mas (“but”), from Latin magis. Doublet of más.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/ [mas]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas
• Homophone: más

Conjunction

mas

1. (formal) but

   Synonym: pero

2. (formal) however

   Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

Adverb

mas

1. Misspelling of más.
2. Obsolete spelling of más.

Noun

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

Further reading

• “mas”, 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

Noun

mas c

1. Dalecarlian; a man or boy from the province of Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
2. (colloquial) tax collector

Declension

Declension of mas

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mas	mas
	definite	masen	masens
plural	indefinite	masar	masars
	definite	masarna	masarnas

Synonyms

man from Dalecarlia

• dalmas
• dalkarl

tax collector

• skatteindrivare
• skattmas

See also

• dalkulla (“female Dalecarlian”)

References

• mas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• -sam, sam, sam-

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más, from Latin magis.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

Particle

mas (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality; -er

   Mas malaki ako kumpara sa kaniya.

   I am bigger than him/her.

   Mas mahal ang talong dito kumpara sa kabilang palengke.

   The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

Anagrams

• sam-

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English must.

Verb

mas

1. must
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:3:

     Na God i tok olsem, “Lait i mas kamap.” Orait lait i kamap.

     →New International Version translation

Tsuut'ina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

más

1. knife

References

• "Tsuut'ina Nominalized Phrases (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6EdGunXLc

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ma's

Etymology

From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /aː/ in South Wales. For the same semantic development compare Irish amuigh (“out”) < Old Irish i mmaig (literally “in (a) field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Adverb

mas

1. (South Wales, colloquial) out

   Synonym: allan

Derived terms

• mas draw (“extremely”)
• mas o'r glas (“out of the blue”)
• mas tu fas (“right outside”)
• maswr (“outside-half”)
• tu fas (“outside”)
• tu fewn tu fas (“inside out”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of mas

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mas	fas	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Woleaian

Verb

mas

1. to die