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
Finnish · maa ‘earth, land’
coined by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
maperhaps from modern astronomical symbol “earth” (⊕)
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ucsur
U+F1930