See also: mulá, mūla, mulą, muła, Mula, and Mulà

English edit

Noun edit

mula (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of moola

Anagrams edit

A-Pucikwar edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Great Andamanese *mulə.

Noun edit

mula

  1. egg

References edit

Ayutla Mixtec edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish mula.

Noun edit

mula

  1. mule

References edit

  • Hills O., Roberto, et al. (2004) Diccionario lulu ña̱ sanyaꞌá xiinꞌ nya̱nya̱ = Pequeño diccionario ilustrado en el mixteco de Ayutla, Gro.[1] (overall work in Ayutla Mixtec and Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 7

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mula f (plural mules)

  1. female equivalent of mul
  2. tree spurge
    Synonym: lleterassa
  3. callus
  4. garfish
    Synonym: agulla prima

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Corsican edit

 
Una mula (1)
 
Una mula (2)

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin mula, feminine of mulus.

Noun edit

mula f (masculine mulu, plural mule)

  1. she-mule

Etymology 2 edit

From its scientific name Mola mola.

Noun edit

mula f (plural mule)

  1. sunfish, ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
Synonyms edit

References edit

  • mula” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmula]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la
  • Rhymes: -ula

Noun edit

mula f

  1. mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
    Synonym: mul

Declension edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • mula in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • mula in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dharug edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

mula

  1. man
    • 1793, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson:
      One of our party lifted with ease two of them from the ground, in spite of their efforts to prevent him, whereas in return, no one of them could move him. They called him ‘murree mulla’ (a large strong man).
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References edit

  • Troy, Jakelin (1994). “The Sydney Language”, Macquarie Aboriginal Words. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 66.

Dupaningan Agta edit

Noun edit

mula

  1. crop; something to be planted

Franco-Provençal edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin mūla.

Noun edit

mula f (plural mules) (ORB)

  1. female mule
    Coordinate term: mulèt m

References edit

  • mule in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • mula in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information edit

Galician edit

Verb edit

mula

  1. inflection of mulir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Gamilaraay edit

Adjective edit

mula

  1. soft

References edit

  • (2006). “Gaay Garay Dhadhin, Gamilaraay and Yuwalaraay Picture Dictionary”

Hausa edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mù.lá/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [mʊ̀.lə́]

Verb edit

mùla (grade 3)

  1. (obsolete) to disappear, be gone

Higaonon edit

Verb edit

mula

  1. to plant

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay mula, from Sanskrit मूल (mūla).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mula/
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Noun edit

mula (first-person possessive mulaku, second-person possessive mulamu, third-person possessive mulanya)

  1. origin

Affixed terms edit

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.la/
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Hyphenation: mù‧la

Noun edit

mula f (plural mule, masculine mulo)

  1. she-mule

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Feminine of mūlus; mūlus +‎ -a (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mūla f (genitive mūlae); first declension

  1. female mule, she-mule

Declension edit

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūla mūlae
Genitive mūlae mūlārum
Dative mūlae mūlīs
mūlābus
Accusative mūlam mūlās
Ablative mūlā mūlīs
mūlābus
Vocative mūla mūlae

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Aragonese: mula
  • Franco-Provençal: mula
  • French: mule
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: mua, mũa
    • Portuguese: mua
  • Galician: mula
  • Portuguese: mula

References edit

  • mula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mula f animal (masculine mul)

  1. female mule

Declension edit

Noun edit

mula

  1. inflection of mul:
    1. genitive/accusative singular
    2. nominative dual

Further reading edit

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “mula”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “mula”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Malay edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit मूल (mūla).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mula (Jawi spelling مولا, informal 1st possessive mulaku, 2nd possessive mulamu, 3rd possessive mulanya)

  1. the beginning, the start
    dari mula lagi
    since the beginning

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Verb edit

bermula

  1. (intransitive) to begin, start
    Segalanya bermula di sini.
    Everything begins here.

Verb edit

memulakan

  1. (transitive) to begin, to start, to commence
    Mulakan enjin sekarang.
    Start your engines now.

Further reading edit

Maltese edit

Root
w-l-j
8 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَوْلَى (mawlā).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mula m (plural mwiel)

  1. (obsolete) landlord

Derived terms edit

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus (mule).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mula f (plural mulas)

  1. mule
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 38v:
      E dixo acab a abdias ue ala tr̃a por las fontanas todas de las tr̃as ⁊ por las torriẽtes quiçab trobaremos yerba ont biuan los cauallos elas mulas e nõ p̃damos las beſtias.
      And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land to every fountain throughout the land and to the brooks. Perhaps we will find grass on which the horses and mules can live, that we may not lose the beasts.”

Descendants edit

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.la/
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: mu‧la

Etymology 1 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

mula f

  1. (Buddhism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

mula m animal

  1. genitive/accusative singular of mul

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

mula

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of muli

Further reading edit

  • mula in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin mūla. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mua.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -ulɐ
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Noun edit

mula f (plural mulas)

  1. female equivalent of mulo
  2. (figuratively, derogatory) a stupid person (regardless of sex)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French mouler.

Verb edit

a mula (third-person singular present mulează, past participle mulat) 1st conj.

  1. to mold

Conjugation edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin mūla.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mûla/
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Noun edit

mȕla f (Cyrillic spelling му̏ла)

  1. mule (offspring of male donkey and female horse)

Declension edit

References edit

  • mula” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

múla f

  1. mule (offspring of male donkey and female horse)

Inflection edit

 
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. múla
gen. sing. múle
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
múla múli múle
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
múle múl múl
dative
(dajȃlnik)
múli múlama múlam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
múlo múli múle
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
múli múlah múlah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
múlo múlama múlami

Further reading edit

  • mula”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Spanish mula, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus (mule).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmula/ [ˈmu.la]
  • (Castilian)
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  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: mu‧la

Noun edit

mula f (plural mulas)

  1. female equivalent of mulo (mule)
  2. trash
  3. (Latin America) traitor
  4. (Mexico) a smart, somewhat abusive person

Hypernyms edit

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Swedish mule, via German, from Latin mulus.

Noun edit

mula c

  1. mule (a generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
Declension edit
Declension of mula 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mula mulan mulor mulorna
Genitive mulas mulans mulors mulornas
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From mule (muzzle).

Verb edit

mula (present mular, preterite mulade, supine mulat, imperative mula)

  1. (colloquial) to rub snow in someone's face
    • 2006, “16-åring friad från snöbollsmisshandel [16-year-old released in court from snowball abuse]”, in Sydsvenskan[2]:
      Kamraten sade i tingsrätten att han bara tog tag i 16-åringen och mulade honom med snö innan han släppte taget.
      His friend said in district court that he only grabbed the 16-year-old and rubbed snow in his face before letting go.
  2. (by extension, colloquial) to rub something in someone’s face
    • 2008, P J Anders Linder, “En ding, ding, ding, ding värld? [A mad, mad, mad, mad world?]”, in Svenska Dagbladet[3]:
      Bäst som Barack Obama stod och övade segergester framför hallspegeln ringde Reuters på dörren och mulade honom med gratulationstårtan.
      Just as Barack Obama stood in front of his hall mirror, practicing victory gestures, Reuters called on the door and rubbed a congratulatory cake in his face.
Usage notes edit
  • This verb for rubbing snow in someone’s face is known for its many dialectal synonyms, and in a survey made in 2006 by the radio programme Språket i P1, they received 95 synonyms for this word based on 5800 replies, mula being the most common one.
Conjugation edit
Synonyms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Romani.

Verb edit

mula

  1. (slang) (intransitive) to die
  2. (slang) (transitive) to kill somebody

References edit

  • “Om 95 olika ord för att gnida in snö i ansiktet [About 95 different words for rubbing snow in someone’s face]”, in Språket i P1[4], Sveriges Radio, 2006 January 10, retrieved 23 October 2019
  • mula in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Tagalog edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit मूल (mūla, root; origin).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /muˈlaʔ/, [mʊˈlaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Preposition edit

mulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. from
    Synonyms: galing, buhat

Noun edit

mulâ (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. (formal, archaic) origin
    Synonyms: orihen, pinagmulan, pinanggalingan
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Spanish mula, from Latin mūla.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmula/, [ˈmu.lɐ]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Noun edit

mula (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. mule (sterile hybrid of donkey and horse)

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from Spanish mula, from Medieval Latin mula (slipper, shoe with a thick sole), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmula/, [ˈmu.lɐ]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Noun edit

mula (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. mule (backless shoe)

Etymology 4 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /muˈla/, [mʊˈla]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Verb edit

mulá (complete nula, progressive nunula, contemplative pupula, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. (obsolete) Apheretic form of pumula: to turn red

Etymology 5 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmulaʔ/, [ˈmu.lɐʔ]
  • Hyphenation: mu‧la

Verb edit

mulà (complete nula, progressive nunula, contemplative pupula, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎ)

  1. (obsolete) Apheretic form of pumula: to criticize

References edit

  • mula”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 834.

Volapük edit

Noun edit

mula

  1. genitive singular of mul

Warlpiri edit

Noun edit

mula

  1. egg

Yogad edit

Noun edit

mulá

  1. a plant