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Meaning 1
A call declaring a winning hand in the game of mahjong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mahjong
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/
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/mɑːˈʒɒŋ/
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US: /mɑˈd͡ʒɔŋ/
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US: /mɑˈʒɔŋ/
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cot-caught-merger: /mɑˈd͡ʒɑŋ/
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cot-caught-merger: /mɑˈʒɑŋ/
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rhymes with -ɒŋ
noun
Meaning 2
A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Mah-Jongg
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: board game
History
Etymology
From Mandarin 麻將/麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒/儿 /ŋ̍/.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: mahjong — game for four players
- Afrikaans: mah-jongg — game for four players
- Afrikaans: mahjongg — game for four players
- Arabic: مَا جُونْغ (mā jūnḡ) — game for four players
- Armenian: մահջոնգ (mahǰong) — game for four players
- Burmese: မာကျောက် (ma-kyauk) — game for four players
- Cherokee: ᎹᏦᏂᎩ (matsonigi) — game for four players
- Cherokee: ᎹᏦᎦ (matsoga) — game for four players
- Chinese Cantonese: 麻雀 — game for four players
- Hakka Chinese: 麻雀 (mà-chiok) — game for four players
- Chinese: 麻雀 (zh-min-nan) — game for four players
- Chinese Mandarin: 麻將 /麻将 (májiàng) — game for four players
- Chinese Mandarin: 麻雀 (máquè) — game for four players
- Dutch: mahjong — game for four players
- Dutch: matjok — game for four players
- Esperanto: maĝango — game for four players
- Finnish: mahjong — game for four players
- French: mah-jong — game for four players
- German: Mah-Jongg — game for four players
- Hungarian: madzsong — game for four players
- Indonesian: mahyong — game for four players
- Japanese: 麻雀 (mājan) — game for four players
- Japanese: 麻将 (mājan) — game for four players
- Korean: 마작 (majak) — game for four players
- Korean: 마장 (majang) — game for four players
- Mongolian: маажаан (maažaan) — game for four players
- Polish: madżong — game for four players
- Portuguese: mahjong — game for four players
- Portuguese: majongue — game for four players
- Russian: маджо́нг (madžóng) — game for four players
- Russian: мацзя́н (maczján) — game for four players
- Russian: мадзя́н (madzján) — game for four players
- Spanish: mahjong — game for four players
- Tagalog: madyong — game for four players
- Thai: ไพ่นกกระจอก (pâi-nók-grà-jɔ̀ɔk) — game for four players
- Ukrainian: маджонг (madžonh) — game for four players
- Uyghur: ماجاڭ (majang) — game for four players
- Vietnamese: mạt chược — game for four players
- Zhuang: mazcoz — game for four players