mazá

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Meaning

  1. (feminine) apple
  2. (feminine) knob, pommel

Frequency

B2
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
[maˈθaː]
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.

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