different between mas vs fas

Translingual

Etymology

From m- +? as.

Symbol

mas

1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

English

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 520:

Etymology 2

Noun

mas

1. plural of ma

Etymology 3

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.

Anagrams

• 'ams, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, MSA, S. Am., SAM, SMA, Sam, Sam., sam, sma

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas (plural maste)

1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

Derived terms

• hoofmas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mat

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh??ti?-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (compare Old English m?d, Latin m?tior). Bears coincidental similarity to English mass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Verb

mas (first-person singular past tense mata, participle matur)

1. I measure
2. I estimate, assess
3. I consider

Related terms

• mot

Derived terms

• matem
• matje
• matshëm

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ? (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ??? (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic ?? (po, “behind, after”)).

Preposition

mas (+ablative)

1. behind, after, beyond
2. at
3. over
4. against

Adverb

mas

1. behind, after
2. hence

Derived terms

• masi (Gheg)
• masanej (Gheg)

Related terms

• pas
• mbasi
• përmasë
• mbas

References

Asturian

Noun

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mas, from Latin mansum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mas/

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalonia.

Derived terms

• masia

Further reading

• “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: maz

Noun

mas

1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

1. bother, trouble

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin m?nsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/, /m?s/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in southern France)

Further reading

• “mas” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”)

Noun

mas

1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”)

Noun

mas

1. mass

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Etymology 1

From Javanese mas (???, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, m?s, ?mas, h?mas, from Sanskrit ??? (m??a, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronoun

mas

1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

• mas (used for males)
• mbak (used for females)
• kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
• Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
• saudari (used for women of equal status)
• bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
• ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
• sampeyan (Java, gender-neutral)
• panjenengan (Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of emas (“gold”)

Derived terms

• mas kawin

Further reading

• “mas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante

Noun

mas m (sometimes MAS, invariable)

1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Latin

Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”) [whence Sanskrit ???? (marya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax) and Old Armenian ???? (mari)], but this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma?s/, [mä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mas/, [m?s]

Noun

m?s m (genitive maris); third declension

1. man, male (in the sense of male human being)

Usage notes

The sense of “human being” is rendered by Latin hom?, the sense of “male human being” by Latin m?s, and the sense of “adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Synonyms

• (man): vir

Antonyms

• (man): mulier

Coordinate terms

• f?mina

Derived terms

• mar?tus
• mascul?nus
• masculus
• s?mim?s

Descendants

• Aromanian: mari
• Romanian: mare

Adjective

m?s (genitive maris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. male, masculine, manly

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Related terms

• mar?t?
• mascul?nus

References

• mas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Malay

Alternative forms

• emas
• ????
• ???

Etymology

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit ??? (m??a, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as

Noun

mas (Jawi spelling ???)

1. Alternative form of emas

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman masse.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

Northern Sami

Pronoun

mas

1. locative singular of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mas

1. imperative of masa

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

Noun

mas m (plural mases)

1. farmhouse, typical country house

Papiamentu

Adverb

mas

1. most

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas f

1. genitive plural of masa

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *me?h?- (“great”). Cognate of mais (“more”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma(j)s/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma(j)s/, /m?s/
    • Homophone: más (without the intrusive /j/)
    • Homophone: mais (with the intrusive /j/)
• Hyphenation: mas

Conjunction

mas

2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

   Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto

4. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)

6. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)

8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Derived terms

• mas é
• mas sim
• mas também

Adverb

mas (not comparable)

2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how

   Synonyms: e como, e

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

Derived terms

• deixar de mas
• sem mas nem meio mas

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali ??? (mach).

Noun

mas

1. fish

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (m?msá)

Noun

mas m (plural masa)

1. meat

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin mansum, from mansus.

Noun

mas n (plural masuri)

1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

Declension

Related terms

• mânea

Verb

mas

1. past participle of mânea

Scottish Gaelic

Conjunction

mas

1. if is

Usage notes

• This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).

  mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

Somali

Noun

mas m

1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mas/, [?mas]
• Homophone: más

Conjunction

mas

1. (formal) but

   Synonym: pero

2. (formal) however

   Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

Adverb

mas

1. Misspelling of más.
2. Obsolete spelling of más

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

mas c

1. Dalecarlian; a man from the province Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
2. (colloquial) tax collector

Declension

Synonyms

man from Dalecarlia

• dalmas
• dalkarl

tax collector

• skatteindrivare
• skattmas

References

• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Particle

mas

1. comparative marker of inequality

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English must.

Verb

mas

1. must

mas

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ma's

Etymology

From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /a?/ in South Wales.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?s/

Adverb

mas

1. (South Wales, colloquial) out

   Synonym: allan

Derived terms

• mas draw (“extremely”)
• mas o'r glas (“out of the blue”)
• mas tu fas (“right outside”)
• maswr (“outside-half”)
• tu fas (“outside”)
• tu fewn tu fas (“inside out”)

Mutation

English

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Anagrams

• AFS, AFs, FSA, SAF, SFA, asf

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fas/
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas

1. plural of fa

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative form of fer

Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

fas

1. second-person singular present indicative of facer

Etymology 2

Noun

fas m pl

1. plural of fa

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Verb

fas

1. singular imperative of fasen

Hlai

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai) IPA^(key): /fa?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hlai *f?a?? (“sky”), from Pre-Hlai *fa?? (Norquest, 2015). Compare Proto-Tai *va?? (“sky; weather”) (whence Thai ??? (fáa)).

Noun

fas

1. sky

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hlai *C-wa?? (“sour”), from Pre-Hlai *C-wa?? (Norquest, 2015).

Adjective

fas

1. sour

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/

  Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

fas n (genitive singular fass, no plural)

1. deportment, manner

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fas]
• Hyphenation: fas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

fas (first-person possessive fasku, second-person possessive fasmu, third-person possessive fasnya)

1. Alternative spelling of vas (“vase”)

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

fas

1. Alternative spelling of fast.

Latin

Alternative forms

• ph?s (medieval)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?os (“utterance, saying”), a derivative of the root *b?eh?- (“to speak”) whence also Latin for, f?r?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fa?s/, [fä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas/, [f?s]

Noun

f?s n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (uncountable) dictates of religion, divine law (opp. i?s, human law), or an obligation thereunder

   hoc contra ius fasque est

   this is against law and divine law

   • Corpus Reformatorum, volume 38, page 235:

     Itaque si fas non est patris, vel filii, patrui vel nepotis uxorem habere in matrimonio, unum et idem de fratris uxore sentire convenit: de qua similis prorsus lex uno contextu et tenore perlata est.

     And so if divine law is that the father, or the son, the uncle or the nephew are not to have a wife in marriage, it comes together as one and the same thing about the brother's wife: from which a similar law is conveyed by means of connecting and grasping [a pattern].

2. (uncountable) the will of God; a predetermined destiny
   • Aeneid I.206:

     illic fas regna resurgere Troiae.

     There it is divine will that the kingdom of Troy shall rise again.

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular., singular only.

Derived terms

• f?stus
• nef?s

References

• fas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• fas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 203

Middle English

Noun

fas

1. Alternative form of fass

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?fas/

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vëst?.

Adverb

fas

1. again, once more
2. on the other hand

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fas

1. imperative of fase

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

fas n

1. Alternative form of fæs

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

fas c

1. a phase, a time period
2. a phase (angular difference in periodic waves)

   i fas, ur fas

   in phase, out of phase

3. a sloping edge

Declension

Related terms

• fasa
• fasett

References

• fas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?s/

Noun

fas

1. Soft mutation of bas.

Mutation

Adverb

fas

1. Soft mutation of mas.

Mutation

Wolof

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (faras).

Pronunciation

Noun

fas (definite form fas wi)

1. horse