mazer

See also: Mazer

English

Alternative forms

• maser

Etymology

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”).

It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪzə/
• Rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

mazer (countable and uncountable, plural mazers)

1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

     Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]

Derived terms

• mazer bowl
• mazer wood

Anagrams

• Marez, Meraz, Zerma

Middle English

Noun

mazer

1. Alternative form of maser

Old French

Alternative forms

• mazre, maser, mazar, madre

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *masur (“maple”).

Noun

mazer oblique singular, m (oblique plural mazers, nominative singular mazers, nominative plural mazer)

1. maple
2. large drinking bowl made maple; mazer bowl

Descendants

• Middle French: madre
  • French: madre
  • ⇒ Middle French: madré
    • French: madré
• → Middle English: maser, masere, mazer, mazar
  • English: mazer (obsolete, archaic)
• ⇒ Old French: mazerin, mazelin, madelin, maderin
  • Middle French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
    • French: mazerin, mazarin, madre
  • → Middle English: maselin, maseline, maselyn
  • → Middle English: mazerin, mazarin
    • English: mazerin
  • → Medieval Latin: mazerinus, maserinus, mazelinus, maderinus