 Like other similar measures such as tael and catty, the English word "mace" derives from Malay, in this case through Dutch "maes", plural "masen", from Malay "mas" which, in turn, derived from Sanskrit "", a word related to "mash," another name for the urad bean, and masha, a traditional Indian unit of weight equal to 0.97 gram.This word is unrelated to other uses of mace in English.The Chinese word for mace is "qian" (), which is also a generic word for "money" in Mandarin Chinese.