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Definition: Masa |
MasaNoun1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Masa" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
"Masa" is a common misspelling or typo for: mama, maser, mash, mask, mass, mast, maze, mesa. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MASA | English | Methods and Standards Automation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Masa |
| Specialty definitions using "Masa": CORN COOKER, CORN GRINDER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Masa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (arrangement, proceedings, provision), Czech (bulk, mass), Icelandic (chat, chatter, gossip), Indonesian (epoch, era, period, season, tense, term), Macedonian (table), Polish (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile), Romanian (knead, mass), Sepedi (dawn), Serbo-Croatian (heap, mass, matter), Spanish (body, bulk, dollop, dough, lump, mass, paste, volume), Turkish (console, desk, table). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oir (1974) Professori Masa (1950) Rumah masa depan (1984) Masa Alunkot (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Lindungilah mereka dengan memberi suntikan untuk menjamin masa depan.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Masa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Masa" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Masa": masa-idah, masa-idahdeputy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
masa | 132 | flexible masa | 6 |
harina masa | 53 | masa molecular | 6 |
corporal de indice masa | 42 | conservacion de de la la ley masa | 6 |
de masa transferencia | 23 | harina masa toronto | 6 |
centro de masa | 18 | es masa que | 5 |
atomica masa | 16 | coeficientes de de masa transferencia | 5 |
masa tenisi | 14 | boston masa | 5 |
masa muscular | 13 | madre masa | 5 |
de masa sal | 13 | aumentar masa muscular | 5 |
kvaerner masa yard | 12 | masa resimleri üstü | 5 |
corporal indice masa | 10 | 12 masa rotunda | 5 |
george masa | 10 | valeria masa | 5 |
masa pengurusan | 9 | empanadas masa para | 5 |
masa corporal | 8 | balance de masa | 4 |
masa yard | 7 | conservacion de la masa | 4 |
masa resorte sistema | 7 | krytyczna masa | 4 |
de hojaldre masa | 7 | masa molar | 4 |
masa para pizza | 7 | flour masa | 4 |
aumento de masa muscular | 7 | hojaldre la masa | 4 |
masa recipe | 6 | job masa site | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai masma kai idouma kai massh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Masma quoque et Duma et Massa |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Mabsan, and Masma, and Duma, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Misma Duma Masa |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Mishma and Dumah and Massa, |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 25, Verse 14 |
| Bulgarian | Масма, "ума, Маса, |
| Cebuano | Ug si Misma, ug si Duma, ug si Massa, |
| Croatian | Mišma, Duma, Masa, |
| Danish | Misjma, Duma, Massa, |
| Dutch | En Misma, en Duma, en Massa, |
| Finnish | Misma, Duuma, Massa, |
| French | Mischma, Duma, Massa, |
| German | Misma, Duma, Massa, |
| Haitian Creole | Michma, Douma, Masa, |
| Hungarian | És Misma, Dúmah és Massza. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan Misma dan Duma dan Masa |
| Italian | Misma, Duma, Massa, |
| Korean | 미 스 마 와, 두 마 와, 맛 사 와, |
| Maori | Ko Mihima, ko Ruma, ko Maha, |
| Norwegian | og Misma og Duma og Massa, |
| Portuguese | Misma, Dumá, Massá, |
| Rumanian | Miwma, Duma, Masa; |
| Russian | нЙЫНБ, дХНБ, нБУУБ, |
| Spanish | Misma, Duma, Masá, |
| Swedish | Misma, Duma och Massa, |
| Ukrainian | І Мішма, і "ума, і Масса, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Masa": abomasa, omasa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Masa": abomasal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-s" | |
-1 letter: aas, ama, mas. | |
-2 letters: aa, am, as, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-s" | |
+1 letter: agmas, almas, amahs, amass, amias, atmas, camas, gamas, lamas, maars, mamas, manas, massa, mayas, omasa, samba. | |
+2 letters: abamps, abomas, admass, agamas, ahimsa, alamos, alarms, almahs, amazes, amebas, amigas, amusia, animas, aromas, asarum, ashman, ashram, asrama, asthma, aswarm, atmans, balsam, camass, camisa, damans, damars, damask, dramas, gamays, gambas, gammas, gasman, gramas, halmas, hamals, hamzas, kalams, karmas, lamias, lampas, llamas, macaws, madams, madras, mafias, magmas, makars, malars, mambas, mammas, manats, manias, mannas, mantas, massas, matsah, matzas, miasma, pampas, plasma, praams, salaam, salami, samara, sambar, sambas, samosa, sampan, seaman, shaman, shamas, shazam, somata, squama, tamals, ulamas, yasmak, zamias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 73 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678567 |
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