ma
IPA: mˈɑ
Root Word: MA
noun
- Postal abbreviation of Massachusetts, a state of the United States of America.
- Maluku, a province of Indonesia.
- Maranhão, a state of Brazil.
- (colloquial, and in direct address) mother, mama
- (colloquial) The landlady of a theater.
- May
- A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.
- A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Initialism of Master of Arts. [A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject.]
- (US, television) Initialism of mature audience, a television rating.
- (US, military) Initialism of master-at-arms; also MAA. [(UK, Navy) A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship.]
- (astronomy, usually in the plural) Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.
- Abbreviation of May.
adjective
- (statistics) Initialism of moving average.
Examples of "ma" in Sentences
- The car is bleeding antifreeze, Ma.
- Ma ai means Ma means space and time.
- Cheryl loves to splurge on X mas gift.
- Ah hey ma ma ma Life in a northern town.
- Madam Ma is now the first lady of the Republic of China.
- The two bridges are connected over Ma an by Ma an Viaduct.
- "_C'est drole! c'est ma maison_ -- _ma maison veritable_!"
- Lots of calm ma for Cindy and screening ma for Christopher.
- It is believed that de Mas used a daguerreotype camera in 1841.
- African masks are also used in the Mas or Masquerade of the Caribbean Carnival.
- Just 10 kilometers away from the central area of Buon Ma Thuot City is located a grandiose primeval forest.
- Napoli e Maradona = un amore infinito! ma c'amma fa cu stu S. Paolo..foss S. Gennar..ma quanto vorrei che il mio stadio s chiammass
- And, in fact, out in California, a lot of the women I spoke to out there seem to have, you know, a particular antipathy towards the term ma'am.
- Because sao cook has the same pronunciation as the word for an older woman, when Chinese hear the term "ma da sao," they usually picture a housewife.
- Guillemette, Chienne de ma Soeur_; but having a quarrel with his sister, he maliciously put into the _errata_, "Instead of _Chienne de ma Soeur_, read _ma Chienne de Soeur_."
- Egyptian government was highly centralized and society strictly hierarchical: proper order in the kingdom, expressed by the term ma ` at, was thought to ensure national well-being.
- _Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma_, the Chinese stammeringly say, and if the pitch and tone of each _ma_ are right, the meaning of the apparent repetition is, "Does Mother scold the horses, or will the horses scold Mother?"
- Was it not Scarron who wrote a poem, 'A Guillemette, chienne de ma soeur, 'but quarrelling with his sister just as the volume was about to appear, put in the _errata_,' For _chienne de ma soeur_ read _ma chienne de soeur_ '!
- a resemblance to each other, and then also commences for them that annoyance to which so many English children have been subjected, from generation to generation down to our time: the difficulty of knowing when to say _mon_ and _ma_ -- "kaunt dewunt dire moun et ma" -- that is how to distinguish the genders.