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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmætsə/ [UK], /ˈmætsəʊ/ [UK], /ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/ [UK], /ˈmɑtsə/ [US], /ˈmɑtsoʊ/ [US], /ˌmɑˈtsɑ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-matzo.wav [Southern-England] Forms: matzos [plural], matzot [plural], matzoth [plural], matsah [alternative], matza [alternative], matzah [alternative], matzoh [alternative]
Rhymes: (UK) -ætsə, -ɑː Etymology: When stressed on the first syllable, from Yiddish מצה (matse), from Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá); pronunciations stressed on the second syllable are borrowed directly from Hebrew. Etymology templates: {{der|en|yi|מצה|tr=matse}} Yiddish מצה (matse), {{der|en|he|מַצָּה|tr=matsá}} Hebrew מַצָּה (matsá) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|matzot|matzoth}} matzo (countable and uncountable, plural matzos or matzot or matzoth)
  1. (uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine. Tags: uncountable Translations (thin, unleavened bread): маца́ (macá) [feminine] (Belarusian), маца́ (macá) [feminine] (Bulgarian), matsà [feminine] (Catalan), 無酵餅 /无酵饼 (wújiàobǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), matze [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), matse [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), maco (Esperanto), matsa (Finnish), matza [feminine] (French), Matze [feminine] (German), Mazze [feminine] [technical, engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (German), Matzen [masculine] (German), Mazzen [masculine] [technical, engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (German), מַצָּה (matsá) [feminine] (Hebrew), pászka (Hungarian), macesz (Hungarian), マッツァー (mattsā) (Japanese), מצה (masa or matsa) [Hebrew, feminine] (Ladino), masa [Latin, feminine] (Ladino), matsa [Latin, feminine] (Ladino), مصا (masâ) (Persian), maca [feminine] (Polish), przaśnik [masculine] (Polish), matzá [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), маца́ (macá) [feminine] (Russian), мацца́ (maccá) [feminine] (Russian), matzá [feminine] (Spanish), matsa (Turkish), маца́ (macá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), מצה (matse) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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  2. (countable) A piece of the above bread. Tags: countable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: egg matzo, matzo ball, shmurah matzo

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Ladino translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Yiddish translations",
    "en:Foods"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "egg matzo"
    },
    {
      "word": "matzo ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "shmurah matzo"
    }
  ],
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      "מצה",
      "מצה#Yiddish"
    ],
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    ]
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      "name": "der"
    },
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        "2": "he",
        "3": "מַצָּה",
        "tr": "matsá"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
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    {
      "form": "matzos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matzot",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matzoth",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matsah",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matza",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matzah",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "matzoh",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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        "4": "matzoth"
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    }
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
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              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
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              135,
              140
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg and Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2013:",
          "text": "Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night. Pham learned to cook matzo ball soup.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine."
      ],
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          "unleavened bread"
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        "(uncountable) Thin, unleavened bread in Jewish cuisine."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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      ],
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              115,
              121
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:",
          "text": "[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.",
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        }
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        "A piece of the above bread."
      ],
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        "(countable) A piece of the above bread."
      ],
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        "countable"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmætsə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmætsəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɑːˈtsɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑtsə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑtsoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌmɑˈtsɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "(UK) -ætsə"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑː"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "lang_code": "be",
      "roman": "macá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "маца́"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "macá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "маца́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matsà"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "wújiàobǐng",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "無酵餅 /无酵饼"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "matze"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "matse"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "maco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "matsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matza"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Matze"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "technical",
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "Mazze"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Matzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "technical",
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "Mazzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "matsá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מַצָּה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "pászka"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "macesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "mattsā",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "マッツァー"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "lang_code": "lad",
      "roman": "masa or matsa",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "Hebrew",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מצה"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "lang_code": "lad",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "masa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lad",
      "lang": "Ladino",
      "lang_code": "lad",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "lang_code": "fa",
      "roman": "masâ",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "مصا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maca"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przaśnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "matzá"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "macá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "маца́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "maccá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мацца́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matzá"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "word": "matsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "macá",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "маца́"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "matse",
      "sense": "thin, unleavened bread",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מצה"
    }
  ],
  "word": "matzo"
}

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