amas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "amas"

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)

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Verb

amas

1. present of ami

French

Etymology

Deverbal from amasser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma/ ~ /a.mɑ/

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Noun

amas m (invariable)

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 singular plural nominative amas amais vocative a amais a amasa genitive amais amas dative amas amais forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-amas na hamais genitive an amais na n-amas dative leis an amas don amas leis na hamais

Mutation

Mutated forms of amas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amas	n-amas	hamas	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.mas]

Etymology 1

Verb

amās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of amō

Etymology 2

See hama.

Noun

amās f (genitive amae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of hama

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).

	singular	plural
nominative	amās	amae
genitive	amae	amārum
dative	amae	amīs
accusative	amān	amās
ablative	amā	amīs
vocative	amā	amae

Noun

amās

1. accusative plural of ama and amās

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)