maca

Borrowed from Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.

maca (countable and uncountable, plural macas)

1. The Andean medicinal herb Lepidium meyenii, or an extract of the root of this plant.

   Synonym: Peruvian ginseng

   • 2009, M. Hermann; T. Bernet, The transition of maca from neglect to market prominence, page 18:

     The overwhelming majority of maca roots are dried after harvest. In the cold, dry atmosphere of the puna the dried roots remain edible for several years. A minor proportion of the freshly harvested roots are roasted in huatias, earthen ovens […]

   • 2007 March 18, G. Pascal Zachary, “Is the Key to Creativity in Your Pillbox, or in Your PC?”, in New York Times‎:

     The gap between what the Internet promises and what it delivers is part of the reason that people […] continue to turn to enhancers from caffeine to maca to virtual reality.

   • 2014, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, volume 9, page 802:

     Dried macas are cooked in water or milk and used to prepare a kind of sweet and aromatic porridge, mazamorra. The small macas are preferred, since they are less fibrous.

• Lepidium meyenii on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AACM, ACMA, Cama, MCAA, cama

• IPA^(key): /mʌˈħʌ/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca

macá

1. what? (inanimate)

• má (“what kind of?”)

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “maca”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

maca (plural macaca)

1. stick

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈma.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ka/

maca

1. feminine singular of maco

maca

1. To give.

From Proto-Nahuan *maka, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *makaC.

maca

1. give

maca

1. right (direction)

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑkɑ/, [ˈmɑkɑ]

maca

1. maca, Peruvian ginseng, Lepidium meyenii

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠakə/

maca

1. vocative plural of mac

N- +‎ waca (“to read”). Akin to Malay baca.

maca (ngoko maca, krama maos)

1. to read

• "maca" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

• matsa

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

maca

1. eye

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.t͡sa/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: ma‧ca

maca

1. third-person singular present of macać

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca.

• Rhymes: -akɐ

maca f (plural macas)

1. stretcher (simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured or dead person)
2. gurney (wheeled bed used in hospitals)
3. sailor’s hammock

From French macao or Italian macao.

maca f (uncountable)

1. Mau Mau (card game)

From Proto-Slavic *maca.

• IPA^(key): /mǎːt͡sa/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca

máca f (Cyrillic spelling ма́ца)

1. (hypocoristic) cat, kitty

• (cat): mačka

• “maca” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Quechua maqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaka/ [ˈma.ka]

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ma‧ca

maca f (plural macas)

1. maca (Andean herb)

maca f

1. feminine singular of maco

maca

1. inflection of macar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “maca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

maca

1. tree

Taino Vocabulary in the Dominican Republic