different between maa vs taa

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 1

From Mandarin ? (t?, “pagoda”).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (t??).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. The letter ?? in the Arabic script.

Etymology 3

Interjection

taa

1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

Anagrams

• -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

Aukan

Etymology 1

From English other.

Adjective

taa

1. other; another

Derived terms

• taa taa (“different”)

Etymology 2

From English tar.

Noun

taa

1. tar (black substance; pitch)

References

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

Finnish

(index ta)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???/, [?t???(?)]
• Rhymes: -??
• Syllabification: taa

Postposition

(genitive + ) taa

1. (poetic, dialectal) Of movement, behind; a shorter form of taakse.

Inflection

Synonyms

• taakse

Antonyms

• eteen, edelle

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• taka
• taka-
• tausta
• taempi
• takimmainen

Anagrams

• -ata, aat

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *ta?u. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Noun

taa

1. human being

Interjection

taa

1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!

References

• DAKA
• oqaasileriffik: noun
• oqaasileriffik: interjection

Nzadi

Noun

tàá (plural tàá)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• màá

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

Swahili

Etymology

From *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

Noun

taa (n class, plural taa)

1. lamp, light

Descendants

• ? Kikuyu: tawa
• ? Luganda: etaala
• ? Rwanda-Rundi: itara