mah

mah

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Marshallese.

mah

1. (African-American Vernacular, Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of my.
   • 2014 June 26, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Streetpass Arena:

     Adventurer: 'AFTER YEARS OF ADVENTURING... I HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE STREETPASS ARENA. ONCE I REST MAH HOOFS, I'M GOING TO RECORD MY SECRET BATTLE TECHNIQUE.'

From Cantonese 嘛 (maa3).

• ma

• (Singapore, Malaysia) IPA^(key): /mɑː˧/

mah (Manglish, Singlish)

1. Asserts that there is a straightforward or self-evident reason for something.

   — How come now we cannot straightaway go?
   — Must wait until we have the timing mah, how to go if we don’t even know the timing?

   • 1998 April 24, viken, “tcs shows”, in sg.rec.tv (Usenet):

     Singlish is acceptable in Singapore mah

• (Singlish particles): ah, hor, know, lah, leh, liao, lor, meh, one, sia, what

• Low, Ee Ling, Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction, →ISBN
• Lim, Lisa with Wee, Lionel (2004) “Reduplication and discourse particles”, in Singapore English: A grammatical description, →ISBN, page 125

• HAM, HMA, Ham, MHA, ham

From Proto-Aslian *səmaaʔ (“human”).

mah

1. human
2. people

• Mah Meri

Borrowed from Dutch maag.

mah (first-person possessive mahku, second-person possessive mahmu, third-person possessive mahnya)

1. stomach

• IPA^(key): /ˈma/, which may be followed by [h] or [ʔ] or trigger syntactic gemination.^[1]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: mah

mah

1. an expression of doubt or uncertainty
2. an expression of disapproval or resignation

• ahm

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxъ, from Proto-Slavic *maxati.

• IPA^(key): /mâːx/

mȃh m (Cyrillic spelling ма̑х)

1. swing, wave, sweep (motion)
2. moment, instant

   Synonyms: čȁs, trȅn

   U taj mah. ― At that instant.

• “mah”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

mah

Wikipedia ^sl

From Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.

• IPA^(key): /máːx/
• Rhymes: -aːx
• Hyphenation: mah
• Homophone: mach

mȃh m inan

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)

   Synonyms: mahovina, mahovje, meh

2. (geography) raised bog
3. (regional) bog, marsh^[→SSKJ]

   Synonyms: barje, morost

4. (hunting) velvet (fine fur on a deer's antlers)^[→SSKJ]
5. (rare) down, fluff^[→SSKJ]

   Synonyms: puh, puhec, puhek

n=

• in singular also

n=

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *maxъ.

• IPA^(key): /máx/, /máːx/
• Rhymes: -ax, -aːx
• Hyphenation: mah
• Homophone: mach

mȁh or mȃh m inan

1. gerund of máhniti
2. (obsolete) growth, development^[→SSKJ]

   Synonyms: razmah, razmahnitev, omah, polet, procvit, razcvet, razvetje, razcvit, razrast, vzmah, zamah

3. (archaic) time (an instance or occurrence)
4. (obsolete) moment, instant

   Synonyms: trenutek, hip, moment, tren, trenutje

n=

n=

Borrowed from English Mach.

• IPA^(key): /máːx/
• Rhymes: -aːx
• Hyphenation: mah
• Homophone: mach

mȃh m inan

1. (physics) Mach (ratio of the speed)

   Synonym: mach

n=

Might be from German gemach (“slowly, easy”), from Old High German gimah (“calm, comfortable”). Compare with more common version gmȃh.

• IPA^(key): /máːx/
• Rhymes: -aːx
• Hyphenation: mah
• Homophone: mach

mȃh m inan

1. (obsolete, rare) peace, quietness^{[→Pleteršnik, 2014]}

   Synonyms: mir, tišina, gmah, pokoj, spokoj, blaženi mir, idilični mir, mirnst, molk, nebeški mir, nemota, pokojnost, spokojnost, sveti mir

   Antonyms: hrup, hrum, hrušč, hrumot, hrupot, rumel, šunder, tumult

mȃh

1. (obsolete, rare) quiet, shut up

   Synonyms: tiho, tišina, mir, gmah

• šota
• močvirje
• mahanje
• mahati

• “mah”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “mah”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

mah

1. Romanization of 𒈤 (maḫ)

Inherited from Old Sundanese ma (“marker of emphasis”)^[1]

mah

1. unique marker of emphasis, often untranslatable

   Abdi mah asalna ti Ciamis.

   I [the topic, which we are talking about] am from Ciamis.

   Kamari mah abdi ka Singapur.

   Yesterday, I went to Singapore.

   Poé ieu mah jigana bakal hujan.

   It looks like it will rain today. (literally, "As for today, it looks like it will rain".)

• Note that mah has no direct counterpart in both English and Indonesian. Mah is used as a focus marker to introduce a new information within a conversation or compare existing information.^[2]

mah

1. past tense marker

   Lòkëwe mah utènink nta.

   Yesterday, I went to town.

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “mah”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project