amaso
See also: amasó
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French amas, Italian ammasso.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈmaso]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -aso
- Hyphenation: a‧ma‧so
Noun
amaso (accusative singular amason, plural amasoj, accusative plural amasojn)
- mass (large quantity)
- Li facile rekoneblas pro sia amaso da rufaj haroj. ― He’s easy to be recognized because of his mass of red hair.
- Ĉiutage nin bombardas amaso da informoj. ― Every day we are bombarded with a mass of information.
- heap, pile, stack
- Amasoj da libroj kovris ŝian skribtablon. ― Piles of books covered her desk.
- La aŭto fiksiĝis en amaso da neĝo. ― The car got stuck in a pile of snow.
- crowd (of people), flock, herd (of animals)
- Li vane penis eliri el la amaso. ― He tried in vain to get out of the crowd.
- Sur la montetoj vidiĝis amasoj da paŝtiĝantaj ŝafoj. ― On the hills, flocks of sheep could be seen grazing.
Derived terms
- amasa (“mass”, adjective)
- amasarestado (“mass arrest”)
- amasbuĉi (“to massacre”)
- amasdetrua armilo (“weapon of mass destruction”)
- amase (“en masse”)
- amasfabriki (“to mass produce”)
- amasigi (“to amass”)
- amasiĝi (“to gather (intrans.); to pile up”)
- amasinformilo (“mass medium”)
- amaskomunikilo (“mass medium”)
- amasloĝejo (“dormitory; barracks”)
- amasmemoro (“mass storage”)
- amasmurdo (“mass murder”)
- amasprodukti (“to mass produce”)
- amasprotesto (“mass protest, demonstration”)
- amastombejo (“mass grave”)
- fojnamaso (“haystack”)
- homamaso (“crowd”)
- neĝamaso (“snowdrift”)
- popolamaso (“populace, masses”)
- stelamaso (“globular cluster”)
- teramaso (“mound”)
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto amaso, English mass, French amas, German Masse, Italian ammasso, Russian ма́сса (mássa), Spanish masa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈma.so/
Noun
amaso (plural amasi)
- mass, pile, heap
Derived terms
- amaseskar (“to accrue, pile, huddle”)
- amasigar (“to heap up, amass”)
Rwanda-Rundi
Noun
amâso class 6
- plural of ijisho
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈmaso/ [aˈma.so]
- Rhymes: -aso
- Syllabification: a‧ma‧so
Verb
amaso
- first-person singular present indicative of amasar