1. mäsa-
mäsa- m. Bohne (AV +; MK II 156). - Mi., ni., pä. mäsa- m Bohne, u.a. (Tu 10097 [mit Verweisen]; TuAdd 10097). - Problematisch. Zu beachten sind iran. Wörter wie mp. np. mäs "Wicke, Hülsenfrucht’, $ughni max “‘Erbse, Bohne’, usw.; ihre Verbindung mit m’ ist nicht exakt bestimmbar {s. die Lit. in KEWA II 630; vgl. Morg, Shughni 46af., B. Tikkanen, StudOr 64 [1988] 307 [Proto-(Indo-)- Iranian *marsa-7}; ved. -s- = mp. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. mäsa-, p. 380]
2. māṣa
māṣa m. ( n. g. arDarcA di ) a bean, RV. &c. &c. ( sg. the plant; pl. the fruit; in later times = Phaseolus Radiatus , a valued kind of pulse having seeds marked with black and grey spots)
3. māṣa
pl. (with or scil. akṛṣṭāḥ) ‘wild beans’, N. of a Ṛṣi-gaṇa (the children of Su-rabhi , to whom, RV. ix, 86, 1 - 10 is ascribed), RAnukr. ; R. ; Hariv.
4. māsa
a month or the 12th part of the Hindū year (there are 4 kinds of months, viz. the solar, saura; the natural, sāvana; the stellar, nākṣatra, and the lunar, cA ndra ; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithi s, being itself of two kinds as reckoned from the new or full moon, cf. IW. 179 ; for the names of the months see ib. 173 n. 3 ), RV. &c. &c. (māsam, for a month; māsamekam, for one month; māsena, in the course of a month; māse, in a m˚ = after the lapse of a m˚ )