amas

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.məz/
• (Singapore English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mɑz/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɑːməz

amas

1. plural of ama

• -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Masa, Sama, aams, maas, masa

Cognate with Malay emas.

• IPA^(key): /amas/
• Hyphenation: a‧mas

amas

1. gold (element)

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amas

1. present of ami

Deverbal from amasser.

• IPA^(key): /a.ma/ ~ /a.mɑ/

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amas m (plural amas)

1. pile, heap
2. (astronomy) cluster

• “amas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

amas

1. present of amar

• (opening, opportunity, for attack): amús

From Old Irish ammus m (“attempt, effort; act of attacking, attack”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈamˠəsˠ]

amas m (genitive singular amais, nominative plural amais)

1. attack
2. opening, opportunity, for attack
3. aim
4. dart, grab
5. attempt
6. guess
7. (golf) putt

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.maːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.mas]

See hama.

amās f (genitive amae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of hama

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

• "AMAS", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.maːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.mas]

amās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of amō (“you love”)

Attestations with the meaning “power, consciousness” support a connection with Sanskrit अम (áma-, “strength”), Avestan 𐬇𐬨𐬀 (ə̄ma, “attacking power, strength, potence”);^[1] From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“take hold of; be strong”). This root has been connected with Ancient Greek ὄμνυμι (ómnumi, “swear”), Sanskrit अमन्ति (amánti, “take hold of, swear”), and most likely Latin amō (“love”).^[2]

Must be separated from ãmalioti (“talk nonsense”), of onomatopoeic origin. See am̃sėti (“yap, yelp”).

ãmas m (plural amai̇̃) stress pattern 4

1. (Western Aukštaitian) speech, voice

   Synonyms: žadas, balsas

• “amas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• “amas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

amas f (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) a lot

From Proto-Samic *ëmës.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈamas/

amas (comparative apmasit, superlative apmaseamos)

1. unknown, unfamiliar
2. strange, odd, peculiar
3. foreign

Odd, pm-m gradation
Attributive	amas
Nominative	amas
Genitive	apmasa
Attributive	amas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amas	apmasat
Accusative	apmasa	apmasiid
Genitive	apmasa	apmasiid
Illative	apmasii	apmasiidda
Locative	apmasis	apmasiin
Comitative	apmasiin	apmasiiguin
Essive	amasin

• amastit

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

amas

1. plural of ama

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

From Old Irish ammus m (“attempt, effort; act of attacking, attack”).

amas m (genitive singular amais, plural amasan)

1. verbal noun of amais
2. aim, objective

• clàr-amais

• IPA^(key): /ˈamas/ [ˈa.mas]
• Rhymes: -amas
• Syllabification: a‧mas

amas f pl

1. plural of ama

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

From Malay emas (“a masha of gold”), from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “bean, the weight of a bean's size of gold”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmas/ [ʔɐˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧mas

amás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜐ᜔)

1. a weight of gold that is 1/16th of a tael, approximately 2.5 grams

• masa, asam, sama

From English how much.

amas

1. (interrogative) how much