mazar

English

Alternative forms

• mazaar

Etymology

Arabic مَزَار (mazār)

Noun

mazar (plural mazars)

1. A mausoleum or shrine in the Arab world.

Galician

Alternative forms

• maçar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From maza (“mace”). Compare Portuguese maçar and Spanish mazar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /maˈsaɾ/ [maˈsaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ma‧zar

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macei, past participle mazado)

1. (transitive) to pound, to hammer (to strike repeatedly)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be pounded before cooking.

2. (transitive) to tenderize (meat)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be tenderized before cooking.

3. (transitive) to thresh (flax)
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:

     Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar

     five flax bundles: one threshed and four pending thresing

4. (transitive) to churn

   Synonym: petar

   Mazando o leite obtemos a manteiga. ― By churning milk we obtain butter.

5. (transitive) to bruise

   Synonym: esmolicar

6. (pronominal) to bruise (to gain bruises; to get bruised)

   A froita mazouse no transporte. ― The fruit bruised during the transportation.

7. (intransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) to bang (to engage in sexual intercourse)

   Cacháronos mazando nos servizos! ― They found them banging in the bathroom!

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mazar (c-z alternation)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	mazar
Personal	mazar	mazares	mazar	mazarmos	mazardes	mazaren
Gerund
	mazando
Past participle
Masculine	mazado			mazados
Feminine	mazada			mazadas
Indicative
Present	mazo	mazas	maza	mazamos	mazades	mazan
Imperfect	mazaba	mazabas	mazaba	mazabamos	mazabades	mazaban
Preterite	macei	mazaches	mazou	mazamos	mazastes	mazaron
Pluperfect	mazara	mazaras	mazara	mazaramos	mazarades	mazaran
Future	mazarei	mazarás	mazará	mazaremos	mazaredes	mazarán
Conditional	mazaría	mazarías	mazaría	mazariamos	mazariades	mazarían
Subjunctive
Present	mace	maces	mace	macemos	macedes	macen
Imperfect	mazase	mazases	mazase	mazásemos	mazásedes	mazasen
Future	mazar	mazares	mazar	mazarmos	mazardes	mazaren
Imperative
Affirmative		maza	mace	macemos	mazade	macen
Negative (non)		non maces	non mace	non macemos	non macedes	non macen

Derived terms

• mazado
• Mazadoiro
• mazadura

Related terms

• maza

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mazar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mazzar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• mazzer (Puter)

Etymology

Compare Italian ammazzare, Friulian maçâ, Venetan masar, Istriot masà, Occitan massar, cf. also Spanish mazar.

Verb

mazar

1. (Sutsilvan) to kill

Spanish

Etymology

From maza. Compare Portuguese maçar; cf. also Occitan massar, Italian ammazzare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maˈθaɾ/ [maˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maˈsaɾ/ [maˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧zar

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macé, past participle mazado)

1. to tenderize (meat)
2. to churn

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mazar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			mazar
gerund			mazando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mazado		mazada
		plural		mazados		mazadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mazo	mazastú mazásvos	maza	mazamos	mazáis	mazan
	imperfect	mazaba	mazabas	mazaba	mazábamos	mazabais	mazaban
	preterite	macé	mazaste	mazó	mazamos	mazasteis	mazaron
	future	mazaré	mazarás	mazará	mazaremos	mazaréis	mazarán
	conditional	mazaría	mazarías	mazaría	mazaríamos	mazaríais	mazarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mace	macestú macésvos2	mace	macemos	macéis	macen
	imperfect (ra)	mazara	mazaras	mazara	mazáramos	mazarais	mazaran
	imperfect (se)	mazase	mazases	mazase	mazásemos	mazaseis	mazasen
	future1	mazare	mazares	mazare	mazáremos	mazareis	mazaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		mazatú mazávos	mace	macemos	mazad	macen
	negative		no maces	no mace	no macemos	no macéis	no macen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “mazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10