mask

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from , from (a byform of, see it for more) , , a borrowing of from which 🇨🇬 is regularly inherited.

Replaced, whence , and displaced non-native borrowed from ,.

Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
 * a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
 * 1) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
 * 2)  Appearance, likeness.
 * 3) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
 * 4) A person wearing a mask.
 * 5)  A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
 * 6)  A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
 * 7)  In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
 * 8)  A screen for a battery.
 * 9)  The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
 * 10)  A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
 * 11)  A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
 * 12)  A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
 * 13)  The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears. Complete Guide to Heraldry Fig345.png
 * 1)  In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
 * 2)  A screen for a battery.
 * 3)  The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
 * 4)  A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
 * 5)  A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
 * 6)  A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
 * 7)  The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears. Complete Guide to Heraldry Fig345.png

Translations

 * Achi: k’ooj
 * Afrikaans: masker
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጭምብል
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: قناع, ماسك
 * Hijazi Arabic: قِنَاع
 * Moroccan Arabic: ماسك
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: মুখা
 * Azerbaijani: maska
 * Bashkir: битлек, маска
 * Basque: mozorro
 * Belarusian: ма́ска
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎬᏚᎶ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: xāyacatl
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: maske
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: чамакс
 * Esperanto: masko
 * Estonian:
 * Etruscan: phersu
 * Faroese: gríma, gekkaskortur, maska
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤸𞤵𞥅𞤪𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤵 𞤴𞤫𞥅𞤧𞤮,
 * Roman: huurirdu yeeso
 * Galician:, mázcara, liborio, , , marafón, ,
 * Georgian: ნიღაბი, მასკა, პირბადე
 * German:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: μορμολύκειον, προσωπεῖον, προσωπίς
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: मुखौटा, मास्क, नक़ाब
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: púic, masc
 * Italian:, mascherina
 * Japanese:, , お面, , 面形
 * Kazakh: маска
 * Khmer: ក្បាំងមុខ, ម៉ាសក៍, ,
 * Knaanic: קְרַבוֹשְקְא
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish: kemam, ,  ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໜ້າກາກ
 * Latin: persōna, masca
 * Latvian: maska
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: маска
 * Malay:, kedok, penutup muka, pelitup
 * Maori: ārai kanohi
 * Mòcheno: lòrf
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, маск
 * Norman: vîsagiéthe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: maske
 * Occitan:
 * Old Czech: kraboška
 * Old English: grīma
 * Old Norse: gríma
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Frauz
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: mascaréna
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Samoan: ufimata
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgàile, masg, aghaidh-choimheach, brat-gnùise
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кри̑нка, ма̀ска, кра̀буља, ли̏чина, о̀бразина
 * Roman:, , , ,
 * Slovak: maska
 * Slovene: krinka,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: barakoa
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠙꠣ
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འབག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: maska
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ماسک, نقاب
 * Uyghur: نىقاب, ماسكا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: mwgwd
 * Yiddish: מאַסקע


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: naamiointi
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: maske
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgàile, masg
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon: mascaråde, diguijhî
 * Welsh: mwgwd


 * Bulgarian: маскара́д
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: mascarada
 * Greek:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: naamionäytelmä
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: maskaroni
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: kaponieeria suojaava redutti


 * Finnish: patterin suojus


 * Finnish: pyyntinaamari
 * Hungarian:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Scottish Gaelic: masg


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: genomskinlighetsmask


 * Arabic:
 * French:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
 * 2)  To disguise as something else.
 * 3)  To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
 * 4)  To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
 * 5)  To cover or keep in check.
 * 6)  To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
 * 7)  To wear a mask.
 * 8)  To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.
 * 9)  To conceal or disguise one's autism.
 * 10)  to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
 * 11)  To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
 * 12)  To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
 * 13)  To learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
 * 14) * 2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page:
 * Masking can leave a person with less energy to handle other aspects of their day, from performing basic housework to processing thoughts and feelings.
 * 1) * 2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 220:
 * Some group members describe masking during therapy in order to seem more likeable to the therapist, or because they felt it necessary in order to be seen as engaging with the support.
 * 1) * 2022, Hannah Louise Belcher, Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging, page 80:
 * Kayleigh, who was finally diagnosed at 18, felt that she masked a lot growing up because she "always felt different and was bullied if [she] showed it both at home and in school".
 * 1)  to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
 * 2)  To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
 * 3)  To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
 * 4)  To learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
 * 5) * 2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page:
 * Masking can leave a person with less energy to handle other aspects of their day, from performing basic housework to processing thoughts and feelings.
 * 1) * 2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis, Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have, page 220:
 * Some group members describe masking during therapy in order to seem more likeable to the therapist, or because they felt it necessary in order to be seen as engaging with the support.
 * 1) * 2022, Hannah Louise Belcher, Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging, page 80:
 * Kayleigh, who was finally diagnosed at 18, felt that she masked a lot growing up because she "always felt different and was bullied if [she] showed it both at home and in school".
 * Some group members describe masking during therapy in order to seem more likeable to the therapist, or because they felt it necessary in order to be seen as engaging with the support.
 * 1) * 2022, Hannah Louise Belcher, Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging, page 80:
 * Kayleigh, who was finally diagnosed at 18, felt that she masked a lot growing up because she "always felt different and was bullied if [she] showed it both at home and in school".

Translations

 * Bulgarian: маскирам се
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, naamioida
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Maori: hīpoki
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: naamioida
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Finnish:, , naamioida


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: pitää naamiota


 * Esperanto: maski
 * Finnish: käyttää maskia; pitää naamiota, pitää naamaria
 * German:
 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: maskata


 * Finnish: maskata,


 * Finnish:


 * Korean:, ,
 * 2. 변장하다, 위장하다, 숨기다
 * 3. 숨기다
 * 4. 위장하다


 * Swedish: (1,2,4)
 * Turkish: (2)

Etymology 2
From, from , , from. above.

Noun

 * 1) mesh
 * 2)  The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.

Etymology 3
From, , from ,. .

Noun

 * 1)  Mash.

Verb

 * 1)  To mash.
 * 2)   To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
 * 3)  To be infused or steeped.
 * 4)  To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

Etymology 4
From, short for ,. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To bewilder; confuse.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  facial mask

Noun

 * 1) mask

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) worm

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) ; a cover designed to disguise or protect the face