maze

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• māz
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• UK: /ˈmeɪz/
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• rhymes with -eɪz
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• homophone: mays
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• homophone: maize (pane–pain merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: M EY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, variant of Mays. * As an English and Irish surname, variant of Maye, from Irish Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), see miadh (“esteem, respect”). Compare May. * As a Breton surname Mazé, shortened from Mazéo, Breton form of Matthew. * As a French surname Mazé, from a place in Maine-et-Loire, from Latin Masiacum (“estate of Masius”). * Also as a French surname, shortened pet form of Thomas. * Also as a French surname, variant of Mas, from the noun mas (“farmhouse”). * As a Slovene surname, shortened from Tomaž, a form of Thomas. Or, from the verb mazati (“to grease”). * As an Ashkenazic Jewish surname, from Hebrew מאז״ה (Mazeh), an acronym of מִזֶּרַע אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן (mi-zéra' Aharón ha-Kohén, “from the seed of Aaron the priest”), compare Cohen.

From Middle English mase, from Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English āmasian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: labirint — puzzle to get through
• Albanian: qorrsokak — puzzle to get through
• Arabic: مَتَاهَة (matāha) — puzzle to get through
• Armenian: լաբիրինթոս (labirintʻos) — puzzle to get through
• Armenian: բավիղ (baviġ) — puzzle to get through
• Azerbaijani: labirint — puzzle to get through
• Belarusian: лабіры́нт (labirýnt) — puzzle to get through
• Bulgarian: лабири́нт (labirínt) — puzzle to get through
• Burmese: ဝင်္ကပါ (wangka.pa) — puzzle to get through
• Catalan: laberint — puzzle to get through
• Catalan: dèdal — puzzle to get through
• Chinese Cantonese: 迷宮 /迷宫 (mai4 gung1) — puzzle to get through
• Chinese Mandarin: 迷宮 /迷宫 (mígōng) — puzzle to get through
• Czech: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Czech: bludiště — puzzle to get through
• Danish: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Dutch: doolhof — puzzle to get through
• Dutch: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Esperanto: labirinto — puzzle to get through
• Estonian: labürint — puzzle to get through
• Finnish: sokkelo — puzzle to get through
• Finnish: labyrintti — puzzle to get through
• French: labyrinthe — puzzle to get through
• French: dédale — puzzle to get through
• Galician: labirinto — puzzle to get through
• Galician: enfondura — puzzle to get through
• Galician: enxangada — puzzle to get through
• Georgian: ლაბირინთი (labirinti) — puzzle to get through
• German: Irrgarten — puzzle to get through
• Greek: λαβύρινθος (lavýrinthos) — puzzle to get through
• Ancient Greek: λαβύρινθος (labúrinthos) — puzzle to get through
• Hebrew: מָבוֹךְ (mavókh) — puzzle to get through
• Hebrew: לָבִּירִינְת (labirínt) — puzzle to get through
• Hindi: भूलभुलैया (bhūlbhulaiyā) — puzzle to get through
• Hungarian: labirintus — puzzle to get through
• Icelandic: völundarhús — puzzle to get through
• Indonesian: labirin — puzzle to get through
• Indonesian: taman sesat — puzzle to get through
• Italian: labirinto — puzzle to get through
• Italian: meandro — puzzle to get through
• Japanese: 迷路 (meiro) — puzzle to get through
• Japanese: 迷宮 (meikyū) — puzzle to get through
• Kazakh: шытырман (şytyrman) — puzzle to get through
• Khmer: របត់ (rɔɔrɔbɑt) — puzzle to get through
• Korean: 미로 (miro) — puzzle to get through
• Korean: 미궁 (migung) — puzzle to get through
• Kyrgyz: лабиринт (labirint) — puzzle to get through
• Lao: ວົງກົດ (wong kot) — puzzle to get through
• Latin: labyrinthus — puzzle to get through
• Latvian: labirints — puzzle to get through
• Lithuanian: labirintas — puzzle to get through
• Macedonian: лавири́нт (lavirínt) — puzzle to get through
• Malay: labirin — puzzle to get through
• Malay: pagar sesat — puzzle to get through
• Mongolian: лабиринт (labirint) — puzzle to get through
• Norwegian Bokmål: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Persian: هِزارتو (hezârtu) — puzzle to get through
• Persian: هِزارخَم (hezârxam) — puzzle to get through
• Persian: لابیرِنت (lâbirent) — puzzle to get through
• Polish: labirynt — puzzle to get through
• Polish: błędnik — puzzle to get through
• Portuguese: labirinto — puzzle to get through
• Romanian: labirint — puzzle to get through
• Russian: лабири́нт (labirínt) — puzzle to get through
• Scottish Gaelic: ioma-shlighe — puzzle to get through
• Serbo-Croatian: лабѝринт — puzzle to get through
• Serbo-Croatian: лавѝринт — puzzle to get through
• Serbo-Croatian: labìrint — puzzle to get through
• Serbo-Croatian: lavìrint — puzzle to get through
• Slovak: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Slovak: bludisko — puzzle to get through
• Slovene: labirint — puzzle to get through
• Slovene: blodnjak — puzzle to get through
• Spanish: laberinto — puzzle to get through
• Swedish: labyrint — puzzle to get through
• Swedish: irrgång — puzzle to get through
• Tajik: лабиринт (labirint) — puzzle to get through
• Thai: วงกต (wong-gòt) — puzzle to get through
• Turkish: labirent — puzzle to get through
• Ukrainian: лабіри́нт (labirýnt) — puzzle to get through
• Urdu: بھُول بھُلیاں (bhūl bhuliyān) — puzzle to get through
• Uyghur: سىرلىق ئوردا (sirliq orda) — puzzle to get through
• Uzbek: labirint — puzzle to get through
• Vietnamese: mê cung — puzzle to get through
• Volapük: pölagad — puzzle to get through
• Welsh: drysfa — puzzle to get through
• Welsh: drysle — puzzle to get through
• Yiddish: לאַבירינט (labirint) — puzzle to get through
• Bulgarian: обърквам (obǎrkvam) — Translations
• Bulgarian: озадачавам (ozadačavam) — Translations
• Catalan: desconcertar — Translations
• Galician: aturullar — Translations
• Galician: estampinar — Translations
• Galician: atoutar — Translations
• Spanish: desconcertar — Translations