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maw
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /m?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /m?/
- Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,Norwegian mage (“stomach”)Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian ?????? (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
- Synonyms: trap, yap
- Shut your maw!
- Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- Appetite; inclination.
- Unless you had more maw to do me good.
Translations
Etymology 2
By shortening of mother
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
Etymology 3
See mew (“a gull”),måke (“a gull”)
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- A gull.
Anagrams
- WMA, awm, mwa
Abinomn
Noun
maw
- butterfly
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ?/
Noun
maw m
- boy
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
- I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
Synonyms
- mab
Mapudungun
Noun
maw (using Unified Alphabet)
- rain
Middle English
Noun
maw
- Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)
Somali
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*mi?- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *ma?-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax ma?a, also Dahalo ma?a; Hebrew ???? (máyim),
Classical Syriac ???? (mayy?) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.
Noun
maw m (plural mawooyin m)
- water container, water-jar
Reference
- Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “ma'wi”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 613
maw From the web:
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mak
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)
- (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
- water (salt or fresh)
- 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)
- tame (domesticated, tamed)
- calm, tame (in a calm state of mind. not agitated)
Verb
mak
- first-person singular present indicative of makken
- 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
- poppy (“any plant of the genus Papaver”)
- 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)
- Alternative form of emak
Middle English
Verb
mak
- Alternative form of maken
North Frisian
Noun
mak
- 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 ?
- mother
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *mak?, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?kos
Noun
mak m inan (diminutive maczek)
- poppy, any plant of the genus Papaver
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
mak m anim
- (slang) McDonald's restaurant, Mickey D's
- (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)
- 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 ????)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- (obsolete) shilling
Etymology 2
From English mark.
Noun
mak
- sign, brand, mark, symbol
Verb
mak
- to mark
West Frisian
Adjective
mak
- obedient
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- smallpox
- cowpox
- smallpox vaccine
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