Mass

Etymology 1
From, from and , both from , from , compare 🇨🇬. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with the words: "Ite, missa est", the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. Compare, ,. .

Noun

 * 1)  The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine.
 * 2) A similar ceremony offered by a number of Christian churches.
 * 3)  A musical composition set to portions, or all, of the Mass.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قُدَّاس
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: імша́
 * Breton: Oferenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: masa
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , misdienst
 * Esperanto: meso
 * Estonian: missa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: messe
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მესა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מִיסָה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hunsrik: Mess
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: Aifreann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: អភិបូជា
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: месса
 * Latvian: mise
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: миса
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: quddiesa
 * Maori: miha
 * Norman: mêsse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: messe
 * Nynorsk: messe
 * Occitan:
 * Polabian: maiso
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: miscia
 * Scottish Gaelic: Aifreann
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: миса
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mša, namša
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: misa
 * Tajik: месса
 * Ukrainian: ме́са
 * Vietnamese:, lễ mét
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: offeren


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: Aifreann
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Aifreann
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mša, namša
 * Welsh: offeren

Etymology 2
Short forms.

Usage notes
Patronymics
 * son of Mass: Massson
 * daughter of Mass: Massdóttir

Noun

 * 1) mass

Etymology 1
From, from (variant of ), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  mass;  kind of liturgical service

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) mass (great quantity)
 * 2) paste, dough
 * 3)  mass, weight
 * 4)  earth, ground