This is one of the most basic verbs in the language: to do, to make, to create. It is the root of action itself. Because doing is so central, its family reaches from the single deed to the whole machinery of production: one act, the quality of being practical, and at the far end industry, doing at the scale of a nation. The adjective "made" even drifts into "likely to", because what is already shaped tends toward a future. Pour ע־שׂ־ה into a verb for the act of doing; into a noun for the deed or the doing at scale. Every word here is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
Everyday Hebrew lives almost entirely in the pa'al, the workhorse "to do / make". The pi'el (to force someone to act) and its passive partner pu'al (to be forced) survive mainly in talmudic legal language and are rare today. The pu'al form here appears as the participle מְעֻשֶּׂה, the shape this root takes in that binyan. The remaining binyanim are not lexicalized.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.