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MA

adj
/mɑː/

Etymology

The sound, which parents interpret as a reference to themselves, is very commonly made by infants. For more on the linguistic process whereby infants' monosyllables are tied to ancient word roots for parents, see mama, papa, mātēr, and patēr.

  1. borrowed from 嘛

Definitions

  1. Initialism of moving average.

  2. Initialism of Master of Arts.

  3. Initialism of mature audience, a television rating.

  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. Initialism of master-at-arms.

    2. Abbreviation of Massachusetts

      Abbreviation of Massachusetts: a state of the United States.

    3. Abbreviation of Maluku

      Abbreviation of Maluku: a province of Indonesia.

    4. Abbreviation of Maranhão

      Abbreviation of Maranhão: a state of Brazil.

    5. Abbreviation of Mastercard.

      • Shares of Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA) moved slightly higher after the deal was announced.

    6. Abbreviation of milli-arcsecond.

    7. mother, mama

      • Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.

    8. The landlady of a theater.

      • […] that dear little man writing in the guestbook of the "Ma" or theatrical landlady […]

    9. May.

    10. Alternative spelling of my.

    11. Alternative form of mah.

    12. Alternative spelling of mah.

    13. Negative space in Japanese art.

    14. Mother, mom, mama.

    15. Abbreviation of May.

    16. A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.

    17. A language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The neighborhood

  • neighborpa

Derived

ma-in-law, stepma

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for MA. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA