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马来亚
mǎ lái yà
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Malaya
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马来人
mǎ lái rén
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Malay person or people
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马前卒
mǎ qián zú
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lackey;
errand boy;
lit. runner before a carriage
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马哈拉施特拉邦
mǎ hā lā shī tè lā bāng
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Maharashtra (state in India)
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马大
mǎ dà
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Martha (biblical name)
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马大哈
mǎ dà hā
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a careless person;
scatterbrain;
frivolous and forgetful;
abbr. for 馬馬虎虎、大大咧咧、嘻嘻哈哈|马马虎虎、大大咧咧、嘻嘻哈哈
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马帮
mǎ bāng
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caravan of horses carrying goods
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马年
mǎ nián
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Year of the Horse (e.g. 2002)
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马拉多纳
mǎ lā duō nà
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Diego Maradona (1960-), Argentine footballer
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马提尼克
mǎ tí ní kè
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Martinique (French Caribbean island)
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马普托
mǎ pǔ tuō
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Maputo, capital of Mozambique
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马致远
mǎ zhì yuǎn
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Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1]
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马蹄形
mǎ tí xíng
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horseshoe shape
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马关
mǎ guān
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Maguan county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
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马革裹尸
mǎ gé guǒ shī
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to be buried in a horse hide (idiom);
to give one's life on the battlefield
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驸马
fù mǎ
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emperor's son-in-law
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一言既出，驷马难追
yī yán jì chū ， sì mǎ nán zhuī
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lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
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三马同槽
sān mǎ tóng cáo
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three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Si1 ma3 Yi4] and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof
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三驾马车
sān jià mǎ chē
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troika
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中箭落马
zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
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lit. to be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse;
to suffer a serious setback (idiom)
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乱穿马路
luàn chuān mǎ lù
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to jaywalk
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亚马逊河
yà mǎ xùn hé
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Amazon River
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人喊马嘶
rén hǎn mǎ sī
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lit. people shouting and horses neighing (idiom);
fig. tumultuous;
hubbub
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人困马乏
rén kùn mǎ fá
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riders tired and horses weary (idiom);
worn out;
exhausted;
spent;
fatigued
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人有失手，马有失蹄
rén yǒu shī shǒu ， mǎ yǒu shī tí
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lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom);
fig. everyone makes mistakes;
even the best fall down sometimes
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