masu

From Inupiaq masu.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmasuː/

masu

1. A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

From Japanese 枡.

masu (plural masu)

1. A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

masu (plural masu)

1. masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

• masu-seki (possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.)

• AMUs, MSAU, MUAs, Maus, Musa, UMAs, USMA, amus, aums, saum

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasu/ [ˈmʌsʊ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧su

másu m 

1. thickness

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasu]

masu

1. dative/locative singular of maso

• massu

Childish form of maha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑsu/, [ˈmɑ̝s̠u]
• Rhymes: -ɑsu
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧su
• Hyphenation^(key): ma‧su

masu (colloquial, childish)

1. tummy

• maha
• vatsa

• “masu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Samu, musa, suma, usma

masu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ます
2. Rōmaji transcription of マス

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mansūtus, from Latin mansus, past participle of maneō (“to stay, to remain”).

masu

1. past participle of manoir

• maso, massu

Univerbation of má (“if”) +‎ is (“is”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasu]

masu (triggers lenition)

1. if… is

For quotations using this term, see Citations:masu.