ma

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meaning

earth, land; outdoors, world; country, territory; soil

semantic space · lipamanka

ma is a place or location. This can be a physical one, like a country or spot on the ground. It's far more common to see ma used to talk about grounded locations, but it's also used to talk about anything from a treebranch something's on or even an airplane miles or kilomiters above the ground. ma can sometimes be the ground itself, like dirt or rocks, or even an entire planet with a hard surface. don't confuse ma with kiwen though, because ma has connotations of location and ground that kiwen doesn't.

ku translations

country100 territory100 land93 realm91 area81 field80 region80 place73 soil73 earth71 province70 zone69 ground64 nation62 environmental57 environment54 location50 site50 domain45 national45 world45 nature43 continent40 landscape40 setting40 outdoors38 habitat36 dirt33 sector31 yard29 kingdom28 venue27 outside26 acre25

pu verbatim

NOUN earth, land; outdoors, world; country, territory; soil

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

الفنلندية · maa ‘earth, land’

coined by jan Sonja

listen

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perhaps from modern astronomical symbol “earth” (⊕)

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ucsur

U+F1930

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