amas

See also: amás and āmaś

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.məz/
• (Singapore English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mɑz/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɑːməz

Noun

amas

1. plural of ama

Anagrams

• -sama, AAMS, AAMs, AMSA, Maas, Masa, Sama, aams, maas, masa

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay emas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amas/
• Hyphenation: a‧mas

Noun

amas

1. gold (element)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

amas

1. present of ami

French

Etymology

Deverbal from amasser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma/ ~ /a.mɑ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

amas m (plural amas)

1. pile, heap
2. (astronomy) cluster

Derived terms

• amas d’étoiles
• amas globulaire
• amas ouvert
• amas stellaire
• super-amas d’étoiles

 

Further reading

• “amas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

Ido

Verb

amas

1. present of amar

Irish

Alternative forms

• (opening, opportunity, for attack): amús

Etymology

From Old Irish ammus m (“attempt, effort; act of attacking, attack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈamˠəsˠ]

Noun

amas m (genitive singular amais, nominative plural amais)

1. attack
2. opening, opportunity, for attack
3. aim
4. dart, grab
5. attempt
6. guess
7. (golf) putt

Declension

Declension of amas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative amas amais Vocative a amais a amasa Genitive amais amas Dative amas amais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-amas na hamais Genitive an amais na n-amas Dative leis an amas don amas leis na hamais

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amas	n-amas	hamas	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.maːs/, [ˈämäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mas/, [ˈäːmäs]

Etymology 1

See hama.

Noun

amās f (genitive amae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of hama

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amās	amae
Genitive	amae	amārum
Dative	amae	amīs
Accusative	amān	amās
Ablative	amā	amīs
Vocative	amā	amae

References

• AMAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.maːs/, [ˈämäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mas/, [ˈäːmäs]

Verb

amās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of amō (“you love”)

Lithuanian

Etymology

Attestations with the meaning “power, consciousness” support a connection with Sanskrit अम (áma-, “strength”), Avestan 𐬇𐬨𐬀 (ə̄ma, “attacking power, strength, potence”); From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“take hold of; be strong”). This root has been connected with Ancient Greek ὄμνυμι (ómnumi, “swear”), Sanskrit अमन्ति (amánti, “take hold of, swear”), and most likely Latin amō (“love”).

Must be separated from ãmalioti (“talk nonsense”), of onomatopoeic origin. See am̃sėti (“yap, yelp”).

Noun

ãmas m (plural amaĩ) stress pattern 4

1. (Western Aukštaitian) speech, voice

   Synonyms: žadas, balsas

Declension

Declension of ãmas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	ãmas	amaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	ãmo	amų̃
dative (naudininkas)	ãmui	amáms
accusative (galininkas)	ãmą	amùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	amù	amaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	amè	amuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	ãme	amaĩ

Further reading

• “amas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas, lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “amas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas, ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

amas f (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) a lot

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ëmës.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈamas/

Adjective

amas (comparative apmasit, superlative apmaseamos)

1. unknown, unfamiliar
2. strange, odd, peculiar
3. foreign

Inflection

Odd, pm-m gradation
Attributive	amas
Nominative	amas
Genitive	apmasa
Attributive	amas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amas	apmasat
Accusative	apmasa	apmasiid
Genitive	apmasa	apmasiid
Illative	apmasii	apmasiidda
Locative	apmasis	apmasiin
Comitative	apmasiin	apmasiiguin
Essive	amasin

Derived terms

• amastit

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.mɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.mɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.mɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.mas/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.mɐʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.mɐʃ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mɐʃ/

Noun

amas

1. plural of ama

Verb

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ammus m (“attempt, effort; act of attacking, attack”).

Noun

amas m (genitive singular amais, plural amasan)

1. verbal noun of amais
2. aim, objective

Derived terms

• clàr-amais

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈamas/ [ˈa.mas]

Noun

amas f pl

1. plural of ama

Verb

amas

1. second-person singular present indicative of amar

Tagalog

Etymology

From Malay emas (“a masha of gold”), from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “bean, the weight of a bean's size of gold”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmas/ [ʔɐˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧mas

Noun

amás (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜐ᜔)

1. a weight of gold that is 1/16th of a tael, approximately 2.5 grams

Anagrams

• masa, asam, sama

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English how much.

Pronoun

amas

1. (interrogative) how much