mah

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

mah

1. (African-American Vernacular,Southern US)Pronunciation spelling ofmy.
   • 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 RESTMAH HOOFS, I'M GOING TO RECORD MY SECRET BATTLE TECHNIQUE.'

FromCantonese嘛(maa3).

• ma

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

mah(Manglish,Singlish)

1. Asserts that there is astraightforward orself-evident reason for something.

   — The plants are all dyingalready.
   — No one here to water themmah...

   • 2003, ANGELL, “SIA PILOT ISSUE”, insoc.culture.singapore‎^[1] (Usenet):

     […] Alternatively train SBS bus drivers to become pilots also since they are already bus captains. Anyone can become a pilotmah. Its so easy. Everybody should give it try-but not with me on board.

   • 2014, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan,Singapore Noir, Akashic Books,→ISBN, page89:

     Especially today—we holiday,mah, so don’t bring them to town until tomorrow.

   • 2018 July 13, Shaun Tan, quoting Kurt Tay, “Does Someone Like Kurt Tay Deserve To Be A Father?”, inricemedia.co‎^[2], archived fromthe original on9 August 2024:

     In response, I ask if he thinks that his future child would be embarrassed about the online reputation that he has built for himself after all these years. “Why? All of this is just actingmah, I got nothing to be ashamed about.”

   • 2024 March 28, Benjamin Tan, quoting Ursula Soh, “In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore”, inricemedia.co‎^[3], archived fromthe original on26 November 2024:

     If I’m running around for errands, I want to look cute alsomah. I used to wear shorts, but now I’d rather not. It’ll look like I’ve got thousands of cat scratches.

• (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”, inSingapore English: A grammatical description,→ISBN, page125

FromMandarin嗎／吗 (ma) orCantonese嗎／吗 (maa⁵).

• ma

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

mah(Manglish,Singlish)

1. (colloquial,Chinese Malaysian andSingaporean)Used at the end of anaffirmativedeclarative sentence to change it into a yes-noquestion.
   • 2024 December 8, endlssorrow, “U guys bring smart watch overseamah”, inHardwareZone Forums‎^[4]:

     Coz must charge dailylei

• HAM,HMA,Ham,MHA,ham

Possibly from the possessive pronounmei.

• IPA^(key):/mɑ/

mah

1. (chiefly East Central Bavarian) Used to expresssurprise,shock oramazement.

   Mah, der håd me gschreckt! ―Damn, he gave me a fright!

   Mah, schmeckt des guad! ―Blimey, this is delicious!

FromProto-Aslian*səmaaʔ(“human”).

mah

1. human
2. people

• Mah Meri

Borrowed fromDutchmaag.

mah (pluralmah-mah)

1. stomach

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

mah

1. an expression ofdoubt oruncertainty
2. an expression ofdisapproval or resignation

• ahm

• IPA^(key):/mɑːx/

māh

1. first/third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofmīgan

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*maxъ, fromProto-Slavic*maxati.

• IPA^(key):/mâːx/

mȃh m (Cyrillic spellingма̑х)

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

   Synonyms:čȁs,trȅn

   U tajmah. ―At that instant.

• “mah”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

FromProto-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 fromProto-Slavic*maxъ.

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

mȁhormȃh m inan

1. gerund ofmáhniti
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 fromEnglishMach.

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

mȃh m inan

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

   Synonym:mach

n=

Might be fromGermangemach(“slowly, easy”), fromOld High Germangimah(“calm, comfortable”). Compare with more common versiongmȃh.

• 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”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “mah”, inTermania, Amebis
• See also thegeneral references

mah

1. Romanization of𒈤(maḫ)

Inherited fromOld Sundanesema(“marker of emphasis”)^[1]

mah

1. unique marker ofemphasis, often untranslatable

   Abdimah asalna ti Ciamis.

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

   Kamarimah abdi ka Singapur.

   Yesterday, I went to Singapore.

   Poé ieumah jigana bakal hujan.

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

• Note thatmah 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

   Lòkëwemah 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