different between mach vs mak

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /max/
• Homophone: mag (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
• Rhymes: -ax

Verb

mach

1. second-person singular imperative of machen

Middle Dutch

Verb

mach

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of m?gen

Pennsylvania German

Verb

mach

1. first-person singular of mache
2. second-person singular imperative of mache

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /max/

Etymology 1

From macha?.

Noun

mach m inan

1. waving, flapping

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

mach m inan

1. (Lublin) A type of folk dance.

   Synonym: wiater

Declension

Interjection

mach

1. An exclamation used when some action is performed swiftly.

Etymology 3

From Ernst Mach.

Noun

mach m inan

1. (physics) Mach number

Declension

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mach f

1. genitive plural of macha

Further reading

• mach in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/mach on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/mach

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (mak??, “fly”).

Noun

mach f

1. fly (insect)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

mach m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Obsolete spelling of mah

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?x?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?max/

Noun

mach m (genitive singular machu, nominative plural machy, genitive plural machov, declension pattern of dub)

1. moss

Declension

Derived terms

• machový

Further reading

• mach in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/

Adjective

mach

1. Nasal mutation of bach (“small”).

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• myek (Geordie)
• make (Standard English)

Verb

mak (third-person singular simple present maks, present participle makkin or makin, simple past and past participle makked or made)

1. (Wearside, Durham, dialectal) Alternative form of make

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• AMK, KAM, KMA, kam

Car Nicobarese

Etymology

Suggested by Pinnow to derive from an earlier form um-dak, where the second element is cognate to Mundari ??? (d??). The first element may be cognate to U ?óm and/or Khasi um.

Noun

mak

1. water (salt or fresh)
2. stream

References

• George Whitehead, Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese Language (1925)
• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
• Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gemac (“tame, manageable”); see gemak (“comfort, ease”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Adjective

mak (comparative makker, superlative makst)

1. tame (domesticated, tamed)
2. calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)

Verb

mak

1. first-person singular present indicative of makken
2. imperative of makken

Anagrams

• kam

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Noun

mak m

1. poppy (“any plant of the genus Papaver”)
2. poppyseed

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• mak in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• mak in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Malay

Alternative forms

• emak, umak
• ????, ???, ?????

Etymology

Shortened form of emak, from Proto-Malayic *?ma-?, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *?ma-?, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *?ma-?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?ma-?, from *?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/
• Rhymes: -ma?, -a?

Noun

mak (Jawi spelling ???, plural mak-mak, informal 1st possessive makku, impolite 2nd possessive makmu, 3rd possessive maknya)

1. Alternative form of emak

Middle English

Verb

mak

1. Alternative form of maken

North Frisian

Noun

mak

1. kiss

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *máHt? (compare Persian ????? (mâdar), Baluchi ???? (mát), Pashto ???? (mor), Ossetian ??? (mad), Avestan ????????????????????? (m?tar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHt? (compare Sanskrit ???? (m??t?), Hindi ???? (m?t?)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh?t?r (compare Armenian ???? (mayr), Greek ?????? (mitéra), Russian ???? (mat?), Italian madre, English mother).

Noun

mak ?

1. mother

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos

Noun

mak m inan (diminutive maczek)

1. poppy, any plant of the genus Papaver

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

mak m anim

1. (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's

2. (slang, by extension) food from McDonald's

Declension

Further reading

• mak in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Verb

mak (third-person singular present maks, present participle makkin, past made or makkit, past participle made or makkit)

1. to make

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâk/

Noun

m?k m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. poppy

Declension

Derived terms

• makòvnja?a

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mak/

Noun

mak m (genitive singular maku, nominative plural maky, genitive plural makov, declension pattern of dub)

1. poppy

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• mak in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mák/, /má?k/

Noun

m?k or m?k m inan

1. poppy

Inflection

Further reading

• “mak”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish mak, assumed to originate from an unattested Old Swedish adjective *maker (“easy, calm, fit, suiting, appropriate”), from Old Norse makr (“easy to deal with”).

Noun

mak n

1. a state of leisure; almost exclusively used in the expression:

Declension

• Nowadays never inflected, but historically with the definite form maket.

Related terms

References

• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mak in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• mak in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• kam

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Mark.

Noun

mak

1. (obsolete) shilling

Etymology 2

From English mark.

Noun

mak

1. sign, brand, mark, symbol

Verb

mak

1. to mark

West Frisian

Adjective

mak

1. obedient
2. tame

Inflection

Further reading

• “mak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ??? (dmag).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?x]

Noun

mak

1. soldier

References

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, ?ISBN

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ma?k??/
• Tone numbers: mak⁷
• Hyphenation: mak

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *?ma?k? (“fruit”). Cognate with Thai ???? (màak), Lao ??? (m?k), Lü ??? (?aak), Shan ????? (màak).

Noun

mak (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ? or ??? or ? or ? or ???, old orthography mak)

1. fruit; nut

Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mak (old orthography mak)

1. kidney

   Synonyms: (dialectal) samndaen, (dialectal) iucij

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mak (old orthography mak)

1. smallpox
2. cowpox
3. smallpox vaccine