different between maa vs maha

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

maa

1. A bleating sound, as that of a sheep or goat.

Verb

maa (third-person singular simple present maas, present participle maaing, simple past and past participle maaed)

1. (intransitive) To make such a sound.
   • 1992, Josepha Sherman, A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore (page 126)

     Now it's even worse! The goat maas all the time. And the smell...

Anagrams

• AAM, AMA, Ama, aam, ama

'Are'are

Noun

maa

1. eye
2. snake

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/

Determiner

máa

1. which? what?

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Barunggam

Noun

maa

1. hand

Further reading

• Barunggam body parts

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Finnish maa and Karelian mua.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. land
3. ground
4. country
5. countryside

Declension

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua, Erzya ?????? (mastor) (initial component), Komi-Zyrian ?? (mu), Udmurt ?? (mu), Mansi ??? (m?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??/, [?m??]
• Rhymes: -??
• Syllabification: maa

Noun

maa

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

7. (card games) suit

Usage notes

Due to the multiple meanings of maa, case forms are used to distinguish meanings.

Declension

• Prolative: maitse

Derived terms

Compounds

References

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/

Numeral

maa

1. five

References

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

Guruntum

Noun

maa

1. water

References

• Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Daniel Barreteau, Uwe Seibert, L'homme et l'eau dans le bassin du lac Tchad (1997), page 81

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Finnish maa and Estonian maa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??/
• Hyphenation: maa

Noun

maa (genitive maan, partitive maata)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 300
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[3], page 126
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[4], ?ISBN, page 73

Iu Mien

Noun

maa 

1. mother

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

maa

1. obsolete typography of må

Nzadi

Noun

màá (plural màá)

1. mother

Coordinate terms

• tàá

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe. Cognates include Estonian maa and Karelian mua.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maat)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Inflection

Derived terms

• maailma
• maamuna

References

• "maa" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa, from Proto-Uralic *mëxe.

Noun

maa (genitive maa, partitive maad)

1. earth
2. soil
3. land
4. ground
5. country
6. countryside

Inflection

Derived terms

• maakund

Yoruba

Particle

máa

1. Used to express the durative or future tense.

Contraction

màá

1. Contraction of mo máa (“I'll”).

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

maha

1. (archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.
   • 1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals

     The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

References

• maha in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• AHAM, Hama, amah

Breton

Verb

maha

1. to press

Ese

Noun

maha

1. pig

References

• Jim and Judy Parlier Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Estonian

Etymology

Irregular illative of maa (“earth, ground”).

Adverb

maha

1. down

2. into the ground

3. off

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maha, borrowed from a Germanic language, compare Proto-Germanic *magô, Swedish mage. Cognates include Karelian maha, Votic maha, Ludian maha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?h?/, [?m???]
• Rhymes: -?h?
• Syllabification: ma?ha

Noun

maha

1. stomach, belly

Usage notes

Maha is often used when talking about the inner part (or a round belly) and vatsa when talking about the outer, but especially in speech the usage of these words is often very mixed up.

Declension

Synonyms

• masu
• vatsa

Derived terms

• -mahainen
• mahakas

Compounds

Anagrams

• Haam, ahma, hama

Indonesian

Adjective

maha (plural maha-maha)

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

Jaqaru

Verb

maha

1. to go

References

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

Karelian

Noun

maha

1. stomach

Malay

Adjective

maha (plural maha-maha)

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

Maori

Noun

maha

1. abundance, bounty, majority

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

maha m

1. religious festival

Declension

Adjective

maha

1. masculine/neuter vocative singular of mahant

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

maha

1. genitive singular of mah

Tahitian

Numeral

maha

1. four

Derived terms

• maha ?ahuru

See also

• to?om?ha

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German mahh?n, from Proto-West Germanic *mak?n.

Verb

maha

1. (transitive) to do or make

Conjugation

maha is a weak verb ending in -a

Present tense:yhy mah

dü mahst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr maha

jyr maht

zej maha

Past tense:yhy maht

dü mahtst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr mahta

jyr maht

zej mahta

Present participle: mahaPast participle: gymaht

Further reading

A GRAMMAR OF WYMYSORYS, Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król, Duke University, Slavic and East European Language Resource Center – SEELRC, 2016