mazá
See also: maza, Maza, mazā, maža, mažą, maża, and mażą
Galician
Alternative forms
- manzá, mazán
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.[1]
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): [maˈθaː]
- (dialectal, western) IPA(key): [maˈsaː]
Noun
mazá f (plural mazás)
- apple
- knob, pommel
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: CSIC, page 136:
- Ay espada moy fremosa, que nũca foy suzia nẽ ferrugeẽta, mais sempre foy fremosa et clara et cõueniuele d'ancho et de longo, mais forte et mais firme ca toda las outras, o mãgo tẽes d'almasi moy brãquo et feicto en gisa de cruz, cõ moy fremosa arrays dourada et cõ moy boa maçãa dourada de beril no magarõ.
- Oh, sword which is very beauty, which has never been dirty or rusty but was always beauty and clear and appropriate in its width and in its length; stronger and firmer than the rest; your hilt is of the whitest ivory, made in the form of the cross, with a very beauty golden handle, and an excellent golden knob of beryl in the end
- Ay espada moy fremosa, que nũca foy suzia nẽ ferrugeẽta, mais sempre foy fremosa et clara et cõueniuele d'ancho et de longo, mais forte et mais firme ca toda las outras, o mãgo tẽes d'almasi moy brãquo et feicto en gisa de cruz, cõ moy fremosa arrays dourada et cõ moy boa maçãa dourada de beril no magarõ.
- Synonym: pomo
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: CSIC, page 136:
Related terms
- Maceda
- Macedo
- Maceira
- maceira
- Maceiras
- Macenda
- Macendo
- Manzaneda
- Mazaeda
- Mazaído
- Mazaira
References
- “maçãa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “maçã” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “maça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “maza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mazá” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “mazá” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster's New World College Dictionary, fourth edition, MacMillan, 1999.
Spanish
Verb
mazá
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mazar