different between maha vs maca

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish from Quechua maqa.

Noun

maca (uncountable)

1. The Andean medicinal herb Lepidium meyenii, or an extract of the root of this plant.
   • 2009, M. Hermann and T. Bernet, The transition of maca from neglect to market prominence, page 18:

     The overwhelming majority of maca roots are dried after harvest. In the cold, dry atmosphere of the puna the dried roots remain edible for several years. A minor proportion of the freshly harvested roots are roasted in huatias, earthen ovens […]

Synonyms

• Peruvian ginseng

Translations

See also

• Lepidium meyenii on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, Cama, MCAA, cama

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m????/

Pronoun

macá

1. what? (inanimate)

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Arabela

Noun

maca (plural macaca)

1. stick

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ma.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ma.ka/

Adjective

maca

1. feminine singular of maco

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *maka, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *makaC.

Verb

maca

1. give

Drehu

Noun

maca

1. right (direction)

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?De’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Finnish

Noun

maca

1. maca, Peruvian ginseng, Lepidium meyenii

Declension

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ak?/

Noun

maca

1. vocative plural of mac

Mutation

Javanese

Etymology

N- +? waca (“to read”)

Verb

maca (ngoko maca, krama maos)

1. to read

References

• "maca" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

Paiwan

Alternative forms

• matsa

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

maca

1. eye

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma.t?sa/

Verb

maca

1. third-person singular present of maca?

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca.

Noun

maca f (plural macas)

1. stretcher (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured or dead person)
2. gurney (wheeled bed used in hospitals)
3. sailor’s hammock

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *maca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t?sa/
• Hyphenation: ma?ca

Noun

máca f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (hypocoristic) cat, kitty

Declension

Synonyms

• (cat): ma?ka

References

• “maca” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua maqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?maka/, [?ma.ka]

Noun

maca f (plural macas)

1. maca (Andean herb)

Further reading

• “maca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.