maha

See also: MAHA, mahā, and māha

English

Etymology

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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

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
    Tule maha!
    Come down!
  2. into the ground
    Me panime eile kartulid maha.
    We planted the potatoes yesterday. (lit. "We put the potatoes into the ground yesterday".)
  3. off
    Kütt võttis rebaselt naha maha.
    The hunter skinned the fox. (lit. "The hunter took the skin off of the fox".)

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): /ˈmɑhɑ/, [ˈmɑɦɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑhɑ
  • Syllabification(key): 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
Inflection of maha (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative maha mahat
genitive mahan mahojen
partitive mahaa mahoja
illative mahaan mahoihin
singular plural
nominative maha mahat
accusative nom. maha mahat
gen. mahan
genitive mahan mahojen
mahainrare
partitive mahaa mahoja
inessive mahassa mahoissa
elative mahasta mahoista
illative mahaan mahoihin
adessive mahalla mahoilla
ablative mahalta mahoilta
allative mahalle mahoille
essive mahana mahoina
translative mahaksi mahoiksi
instructive — mahoin
abessive mahatta mahoitta
comitative — mahoineen
Possessive forms of maha (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person mahani mahamme
2nd person mahasi mahanne
3rd person mahansa

Synonyms

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit महा (mahā), combining form of महत् (mahat).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaha/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ha
  • Rhymes: -ha, -a

Adjective

maha

  1. mighty, great
  2. infinite
  3. sublime

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit महा (mahā), combining form of महत् (mahat).

Adjective

maha

  1. mighty, great
  2. infinite
  3. sublime

Maori

Noun

maha

  1. abundance, bounty, majority

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀫𑀳 (Brahmi script)
  • मह (Devanagari script)
  • মহ (Bengali script)
  • මහ (Sinhalese script)
  • မဟ or မႁ (Burmese script)
  • มห or มะหะ (Thai script)
  • ᨾᩉ (Tai Tham script)
  • ມຫ or ມະຫະ (Lao script)
  • មហ (Khmer script)

Noun

maha m

  1. religious festival

Declension
Declension table of "maha" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)mahomahā
Accusative (second)mahaṃmahe
Instrumental (third)mahenamahehi or mahebhi
Dative (fourth)mahassa or mahāya or mahatthaṃmahānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)mahasmā or mahamhā or mahāmahehi or mahebhi
Genitive (sixth)mahassamahānaṃ
Locative (seventh)mahasmiṃ or mahamhi or mahemahesu
Vocative (calling)mahamahā

Adjective

maha

  1. masculine/neuter vocative singular of mahant

Rapa Nui

Etymology

Borrowed from Tahitian maha.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈma.ha/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ha

Numeral

maha

  1. four

Usage notes
  • Maha is used in compound numerals only:
    Maha 'ahuru. ― Forty (literally, “Four tens.”)
    Maha 'ahuru mā maha. ― Forty-four (literally, “Four tens and four.”)
  • For the simple number "four", the native term hā is used.

References
  • Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 170
  • Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 147

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

maha

  1. genitive singular of mah

Slovene

Noun

maha

  1. genitive singular of mah

Tahitian
Tahitian cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : maha

Numeral

maha

  1. four
    nā taʻata/tāʻata e maha ― four people

Derived terms
  • maha ʻahuru

Descendants
  • → Rapa Nui: maha

See also
  • toʻomāha

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Old High German mahhōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

Verb

maha

  1. (transitive) to do or make
    No bo, wos kon yhy maha? ― Well then, what can I do?

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: maha Past participle: gymaht

Further reading

A GRAMMAR OF WYMYSORYS, Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król, Duke University, Slavic and East European Language Resource Center – SEELRC, 2016

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