mozzarella

See also: Mozzarella and mozzarellą

English

Mozzarella cheese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare.
The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɒt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/, /mʌt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/, /mut.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/

• Audio (RP)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)

1. Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
2. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money

   • 2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:

     Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad

   • 2018 November 25, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, Lil Pump (music), “Bank Teller”‎^[1]:

     Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller

   • 2018 November 25, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, Lil Pump (music), “Bank Teller”‎^[2]:

     Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella

   • 2019 September 13, ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), “Diamond Tester”, in Caught Fire‎^[3]:

     I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank

Translations

soft Italian cheese

• Arabic: مُوزَارِيلَا‎ f (muzarelā)

  Egyptian Arabic: موتزاريلا‎ f (mutzarela)

• Belarusian: мацарэ́ла f (macaréla)
• Burmese: မိုးဇက် (mui:jak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬蘇里拉／马苏里拉 (zh) (mǎsūlǐlā)

• Czech: mozzarella (cs) f
• Dutch: mozzarella (nl) m
• Esperanto: mocarelo
• French: mozzarelle (fr) f, mozzarella (fr) f
• German: Mozzarella (de) m
• Greek: μοτσαρέλα f (motsaréla)
• Italian: mozzarella (it) f
• Japanese: モッツァレラ (mottsarera), モツァレラ (motsarera), モザレラ (mozarera), モッツァレッラ (mottsarerra)
• Korean: 모차렐라 (mocharella)
• Macedonian: моцаре́ла (mk) f du (mocaréla)
• Maltese: mozzarella f
• Marathi: मोजारेला (mojārelā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mozzarella m

• Polish: mozzarella (pl) f
• Portuguese: muçarela (pt) f, mozarela (pt) f, mussarela (pt) f
• Russian: моцаре́лла (ru) f (mocarɛ́lla)
• Spanish: mozzarella f
• Swedish: mozzarella (sv) c
• Tajik: моззарелла (mozzarella)

Czech

Noun

mozzarella f

1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of mozza (“a type of cheese”), related to the verb mozzare. Originally of southern Italian origin; cf. Neapolitan muzzarella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mot.t͡saˈrɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Syllabification: moz‧za‧rèl‧la

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarelle)

1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Related terms

• mozzarella di bufala
• mozzarella in carrozza

See also

• burrata

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.t͡saˈrɛl.la/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Syllabification: mo‧zza‧rel‧la

Noun

mozzarella f

1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Declension

Declension of mozzarella

	singular	plural
nominative	mozzarella	mozzarelle
genitive	mozzarelli	mozzarelli
dative	mozzarelli	mozzarellom
accusative	mozzarellę	mozzarelle
instrumental	mozzarellą	mozzarellami
locative	mozzarelli	mozzarellach
vocative	mozzarello	mozzarelle

Further reading

• mozzarella in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mozzarella in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)

1. Alternative form of mussarela

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.

Noun

mozzarella f (uncountable)

1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Declension

declension of mozzarella (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) mozzarella	[[{{{def}}}#Romanian|{{{def}}}]]
genitive/dative	(unei) [[{{{pl}}}#Romanian|{{{pl}}}]]	[[{{{pl}}}i#Romanian|{{{pl}}}i]]
vocative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mozzarella.

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)

1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Further reading

• “mozzarella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014