maza

See also: Maza, mazá, mazā, maža, mažą, maża, and mażą

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza). Doublet of mass.

Noun

maza

1. An Ancient Greek barley cake.

Anagrams

• -azam, Azam, zama

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maça, from Vulgar Latin *ma(t)tea, from Latin mateola, from a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools: Old High German medela (“plow”), Old Church Slavonic мотыка (motyka, “mattock”), मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”).

Cognate with Portuguese maça, Spanish maza, Catalan maça, French masse, Italian mazza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaθa̝/, (western) /ˈmasa̝/

Noun

maza f (plural mazas)

1. mace, club (weapon)
   • 1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:

     Iten, mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro et se meta en missas por miña alma

     Item, I order that they should sell my sendal coif and a steel mace, to be put in masses for my soul

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 518:

     Desý ajuntárõse todos, et alý se cõmeçou hũ torneo et hũ acapelamento tã cruu et tã sen piadade que esto sería hũa grã marauilla de contar, ca nũca fuj õme ẽno mũdo quen uisse tal rresoar de maças et d'espadas perlos elmos et perlos escudos.

     Then everyone came together, and it began a tournament and a carnage so crude and pitiless that it would be a great wonder to narrate it; because never was a man in the world who ever saw [sic] such a resounding of maces and swords on the helms and shields

2. mallet
3. threshing (of the flax)

Derived terms

• mazar
• Mazas
• mazo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “maça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

maza

1. inflection of mazar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Hausa

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /má.zá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.zə́]

Adverb

maza

1. quickly, as quickly as possible

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /má.záː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.záː]

Noun

mazā

1. plural of mijī̀ and namijī̀

Kituba

Noun

maza

1. water

Kongo

Noun

maza class 6

1. water

References

• Deborah L. Buchanan, The Munukutuba Noun Class System, Journal of West African Languages, page 85, 1997

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza), from μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”). Doublet of massa.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːz.za/, [ˈmäːz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmad.d͡za/, [ˈmäd̪ː͡z̪ä]

Noun

māza f (genitive māzae); first declension

1. maza; kneaded mass of roasted barley-meal mixed with water, milk, wine or oil, worked into a solid paste and eaten unbaked; barley cake
   1. maza for the dogs
      • ca. 63 BC – AD 14, Grattius Faliscus, Cynegeticon 307:

        ...lacte novam pūbem facilīque tuēbere māzā...

        ...with milk the young brood and with easy [them] nourish you barley...

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	māza	māzae
genitive	māzae	māzārum
dative	māzae	māzīs
accusative	māzam	māzās
ablative	māzā	māzīs
vocative	māza	māzae

References

• “maza”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• maza in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Adjective

maza

1. inflection of mazs:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

maza (Cyrillic spelling маза)

1. genitive singular of maz

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈmaθa/ [ˈma.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈmasa/ [ˈma.sa]
• Rhymes: -aθa
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ma‧za
• Homophone: (Latin America) masa

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *ma(t)tea, from Latin mateola, from a Proto-Indo-European root describing similar tools; see also Old High German medela (“plow”), Old Church Slavonic мотыка (motyka, “mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matya, “club, harrow”). Related to Portuguese maça, Catalan maça, French masse, Italian mazza, English mace.

Noun

maza f (plural mazas)

1. mace, club (weapon)
2. mallet (in polo)
3. handle (of a billiards or snooker cue)
4. drumstick (for playing drums)
5. meat tenderizer

Derived terms

• macero
• maceta
• mazar
• mazazo
• mazo

Etymology 2

Verb

maza

1. inflection of mazar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “maza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10