mā́sa m. (or n., [Siddh.]) the moon (see pūrṇa-m°)
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, cāndra; the latter, which is the most usual and consists of 30 Tithis, 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; māsam ekam, for one month; māsena, in the course of a month; māse, in a month = after the lapse of a month)
a symbolical N. for the number ‘twelve’, [Sūryas.]
mā́sara n. a partic. beverage (a mixture of yeast, grapes, &c. with the water in which rice and millet have been boiled), [KātyŚr.]; [Mahīdh.] on [VS. xix, 1] (accord. to [Sāy.] on [TBr.] ‘m. the meal of slightly parched barley mixed with sour milk or buttermilk’; accord. to [L.] ‘m. rice-gruel’).