1 definition by Macadonia
Mazda is a Japanese Automaker which produce a clone of the German "Wankel-Rotory-engine" aka Wanker-Rotary. The Japanese inventor, before starting the company known as Mazda, looked up his dictionary for the word 'Wanker', (there is no 'l' in Japanese) found the meaning to be 'one who masturbates'. Trying to find a name quickly for the clone of the German Wankel engine, the Japanese engineer simply translated the phonetics of the word (which he did not know the word of) into Japanese, and came up with 'Mazdabate'. Eventually, this was abbreviated to just 'Mazda', when the former name drew a few laughs from other more english-proficient japanese.
by Macadonia August 1, 2009