mace

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , , from , , , (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), probably from.

Noun

 * 1) A heavy fighting club.
 * 2) A ceremonial form of this weapon.
 * 3) A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
 * 4) An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
 * 5) A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
 * 6)  A billiard cue.
 * 1) A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
 * 2)  A billiard cue.
 * 1)  A billiard cue.
 * 1)  A billiard cue.

Translations

 * Arabic: دَبُّوس
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian: վարզ
 * Azerbaijani: toppuz
 * Bashkir: күҫәк, суҡмар
 * Belarusian: булава́, па́ліца
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: rautanuija
 * French: ,
 * Galician: maza
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κορύνη
 * Byzantine Greek: ἀπελατίκιν
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: más
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: メイス
 * Kazakh: бұздыған
 * Korean: 메이스
 * Latgalian: škynda
 * Latin: clava ferrea
 * Latvian: vāle
 * Lithuanian: buožė
 * Macedonian: боздоган, топуз
 * Malay: cokmar
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: debbus, mazza
 * Nepali:
 * Ottoman Turkish: طوپوز
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: буздо̀ва̄н, то̀пуз
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:, maza de armas
 * Sundanese: gegendir
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: гурз
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: byrllysg


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: marssisauva,, virkasauva
 * French:
 * German: Amtsstab
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: メイス
 * Latin: matia
 * Macedonian: жезол, жезло
 * Malay: cokmar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жѐзло
 * Roman:
 * Welsh: byrllysg

Verb

 * 1) To hit someone or something with a mace.

Etymology 2
From, from re-interpretation of as a plural (as with ); from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: foelie
 * Arabic: قِشْرَةُ جَوْزِ الطِيبِ, بَسْبَاس
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: мацис
 * Catalan: macís
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: muškátový květ
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gondi:
 * Greek: μασίς
 * Gujarati:
 * Hindi:, जावत्री
 * Hungarian: szerecsendió-virág
 * Indonesian: bunga pala
 * Italian: macis
 * Japanese: メース
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada: ಜಾಪತ್ರೆ
 * Kolami:
 * Korean:
 * Maithili: जापत्री
 * Malay: bunga pala, kembang pala
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: meihi
 * Middle English: macys
 * Mundari:
 * Nihali:
 * Odia:
 * Parenga:
 * Persian: پوست جوز هندی
 * Portuguese: macis
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani: जावंतरी
 * Russian: ,
 * Santali:
 * Serbo-Croatian: muškatni cvijet, macis
 * Slovene: muškatni cvet
 * Sora:
 * Spanish: macis
 * Swedish: muskotblomma
 * Tamil:, ஜாதிக்காய்
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ма́цис, муска́тний цвіт, муска́тний квіт
 * Urdu: جاوتری

Etymology 3
From the name of one brand of the spray,. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).

Noun

 * 1) Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

Translations

 * Finnish: pippurisumute
 * Japanese: メイス
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
 * 2)  To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.

Etymology 4
Borrowed from and, meaning "a bean".

Noun

 * 1) An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
 * 2) An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.

Etymology
Alternative variant of, ultimately derived from , likely an expression.

Noun

 * 1)  cat
 * 2)  belligerent, wild woman

Etymology
Derived from through an adverbial form.

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) female

Usage notes
The possessed form may be seen as derogatory or ungrammatical by many speakers, and is often replaced by, the possessed form of.

Etymology 1
From, from , , probably from.

Noun

 * 1)  A war club or.
 * 2) A club used for ceremonial purposes or as part of regalia.

Etymology 1
From, , itself probably derived from.

Noun

 * 1)  weapon

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  spice

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) water