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macha

/mətʃaː/

macha noun: best friend.

Noun

macha (plural machas)

  1. (informal, slang) best friend
    Synonyms:
    bro

Adjective

macha (comparative more macha, superlative most macha)

  1. macho
    • You know, I wonder how class affects the butch/fem aspects of our relationship, because I know there's this macha thing where you want to provide for me in some way.1990 February 4, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Bumps And All”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 12

Proper noun capitalized: Macha

Macha

  1. (Irish) The wife of Nemed. She died only twelve days after arriving in Ireland.
  2. Macha of the Tuatha Dé Danann who is the daughter of Ernmas and sister of Mórrígan.

Synonyms of macha

Forms of macha

Noun
pluralmachas
Adjective
comparativemore macha
superlativemost macha

Origin of macha

Transliteration of Tamil மச்சான் (maccāṉ)

Borrowed from Spanish macha or formed by analogy from English macho.

Questions about macha

What does macha mean?
Macha means best friend.
What part of speech is macha?
Macha can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce macha?
Macha is pronounced /mətʃaː/.
What is the plural of macha?
The plural of macha is machas.

Words near macha in the dictionary

  1. Mach's conjecture
  2. Mach's principle
  3. Mach-Zehnder interferometer
  4. Mach-Zehnder interferometers
  5. mach.
  6. macha
  7. Machabee
  8. Machabees
  9. Machac
  10. machaca
  11. machacas

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