different between mad vs mak

English

Etymology

From Middle English mad, madde, madd, medd, from Old English ?em?dd, ?em?ded (“enraged”), past participle of ?em?dan, *m?dan (“to make insane or foolish”), from Proto-Germanic *maidijan? (“to change; damage; cripple; injure; make mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz ("weak; crippled"; compare Old English gem?d (“silly, mad”), Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), literary German gemeit (“mad, insane”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamaiþs, “crippled”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to change"; compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit ????? (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæd/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /?mæ?d/
• Rhymes: -æd

Adjective

mad (comparative madder, superlative maddest)

1. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
2. (chiefly US; informal in UK) Angry, annoyed.

3. (chiefly in the negative, informal) Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval.
4. (Britain, informal) Bizarre; incredible.

   It's mad that I got that job back a day after being fired.

5. Wildly confused or excited.

   to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred

   • It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

   • 1787, R. Bage, The Fair Syrian, p.314

     My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.

6. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
7. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

8. (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

9. (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.

10. (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Usage notes

Within Commonwealth countries other than Canada, mad typically implies the insane or crazy sense more so than the angry sense.

In the United States and Canada, the word mad far more often than not refers to anger rather than madness, but such usage is still considered informal by some speakers and labeled as such even in North American English by most UK dictionaries. This is due to an old campaign (since 1781 by amateur language pundits) to discredit the angry sense of the word that was more effective in the UK than in North America. Though not as old as the sense denoting insanity, the sense relating to anger is certainly very old (going back at least to the fourteenth century).

On the other hand, if one is described as "went mad" or having "gone mad" in North America, this denotes insanity, and not anger. Meanwhile, if one "is mad at" something or has "been mad about" something, it is understood that they are angered rather than insane. In addition, such derivatives as "madness", "madman", "madhouse" and "madly" always denote insanity, irrespective of whether one is in the Commonwealth or in North America.

Synonyms

• (insane): See also Thesaurus:insane
• (angry): See also Thesaurus:angry
• (slang: Intensifier, much): wicked, mighty, kinda, helluv, hella.

Translations

Notes

Adverb

mad (not comparable)

1. (slang, New England, New York and Britain, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

   He was driving mad slow.

   It's mad hot today.

   He seems mad keen on her.

Synonyms

• (slang: Intensifier; very): hella; helluv; wicked

Verb

mad (third-person singular simple present mads, present participle madding, simple past and past participle madded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:

     The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.

2. (now colloquial US) To madden, to anger, to frustrate. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act V Scene 5:

     This musick mads me, let it sound no more.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ADM, AMD, Adm., DAM, DMA, MDA, adm., dam

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mad, from Proto-Celtic *matis.

Adjective

mad

1. good

Noun

mad

1. goodness

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse matr, from Proto-Germanic *matiz, cognate with Norwegian, Swedish mat (“food”), English meat, German Mett (from Low German).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mað/, [?mað]
• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

mad c (singular definite maden, not used in plural form)

1. food

Inflection

Derived terms

• babymad

Noun 2

mad c (singular definite madden, plural indefinite madder)

1. a slice of bread with something on top.

Usage notes

Very compound-prone; see for example ostemad or pølsemad.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??ð/, [?ma?ð]

Verb

mad

1. imperative of made

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?em?dd, ?em?ded, the past participle of ?em?dan.

Alternative forms

• madd, medd

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mad/, /m?d/

Adjective

mad (plural and weak singular madde, comparative madder, superlative maddyst)

1. Mad, insane, deranged; not of sound mind.
2. Emotionally overwhelmed; consumed by mood or feelings.
3. Perplexed, bewildered; surprised emotionally.
4. Irate, rageful; having much anger or fury.
5. Idiotic or dumb; badly thought out or conceived
6. (rare) Obstinate, incautious, overenthusiastic.
7. (rare) Distraught, sad, unhappy.
8. (rare) Scatterbrained or absent-minded.

Derived terms

• amad
• madden
• madhede
• madli
• madnes
• madschipe

Descendants

• English: mad
• Scots: mad

References

• “m??d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-09.

Etymology 2

Derived from the adjective.

Verb

mad

1. Alternative form of madden

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?d/, /mad/

Verb

mad

1. past participle of make

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of má (“if”) +? ba/bid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mað/

Verb

mad

1. if it be; if it were (third-person singular present/past subjunctive)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d23

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c36

Palauan

Etymology 1

From Pre-Palauan *maða, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

mad

1. (anatomy) eye (organ), face, facial expression
2. front; area, space or time in front of

3. aperture, access, entrance

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Pre-Palauan *maðe, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Verb

mad

1. to die

Notes

References

• mad in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• mad in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• mad in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, ?ISBN, page 139.

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mad, from Proto-Celtic *matis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?d/

Adjective

mad (feminine singular mad, plural mad, equative mated, comparative matach, superlative mataf)

1. good
2. lucky, fortunate
3. suitable

Noun

mad m (plural madioedd)

1. goodness
2. good person

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