different between maha vs taha

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

Tswana [Term?]

Noun

taha (plural tahas)

1. (obsolete) The yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer, especially the southern subspecies taha.
2. (obsolete) The village weaver, Ploceus cucullatus.

Anagrams

• Atha, HAAT, Hata, haat, thaa

Bikol Central

Verb

tahà

1. to get intimidated

Derived terms

• makataha

Chickasaw

Verb

taha

1. to end

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Pronoun

taha

1. second person; you (singular)

See also

• ta

Esmeralda

Etymology

Seler suggested that this term might be cognate or related to Pumé ta (“foot”), but this is now considered unlikely. Compare Esmeralda ta- (“classifying prefix for long objects”).

Noun

taha

1. foot

References

• Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Contribuciones a las lenguas y culturas de los Andes (2005), page 241: De la lista de semejanzas léxicas, por lo general poco convincentes, que fueron notadas por Jijón y Caamaño ([1941] 1998: 483), podríamos agregar esmeraldeño taha 'pié'[.]
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes: taha (citing Seler 1902, Jijón y Caamaño 1941)

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kutaha maii as the equivalent of English draw water in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kutapa maanzi as its equivalent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taha/

Verb

taha (infinitive g?taha)

1. to draw (water, beer, etc.)
2. to seize (booty)

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• ndahi 9/10
• gatahi 12
• g?tahi 7

(Verbs)

• g?tah?ka

(Proverbs)

• m?r?ng?ru wa njamba ?tahaga na ime
• m?tumia ndat?raga m?twe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua

See also

• (to seize): k?gu?ma, k?gwata, g?tega

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Anagrams

• hata

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *?sa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *?sa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *?sa, *asa.

Numeral

taha

1. one

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *d?h?. Akin to Old English d??e, English daw.

Noun

t?ha f

1. jackdaw

Descendants

• German Dohle
• ? Italian: taccola

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish atajar "to block" and Portuguese talhar "to cut".

Verb

taha

1. to prohibit

Rapa Nui

Noun

taha

1. frigatebird

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *?sa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *?sa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *?sa, *asa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ha/

Numeral

taha

1. one