masa

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages

Borrowed from Japanese 柾 (masa) or 政 (masa), an abbreviation of 柾紙 (masagami) or 政紙 (masagami).

--Así se llaman en el Brasil, en jerga comercial,[8] las masas de caucho que proceden de los látex sucios. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
His "tourist" helicopter was a Guatemalan candidate for the Air & Space Museum, an old Bell UH-1D patched together with chicle and corn masa. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover

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