See also: Mucha, muchą, much'a, and múcha

Japanese

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Romanization

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mucha

  1. Rōmaji transcription of むちゃ

Lower Sorbian

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mucha

Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

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Noun

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mucha f

  1. fly (insect)

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Further reading

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

Old Czech

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Noun

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mucha f

  1. Alternative form of múcha

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish muchacho (boy) and Spanish muchacha (girl).

Note: In Papiamentu mucha homber is a boy, mucha muhe is a girl.

Noun

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mucha

  1. child (young person)

Polish

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mucha sense 1
mucha sense 2

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uxa
  • Syllabification: mu‧cha
  • Homophone: Mucha

Noun

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mucha f (diminutive muszka, augmentative muszysko, related adjective muszy)

  1. fly (any insect of the order Diptera)
  2. bow-tie (necktie shaped like a bow)
  3. (Far Masovian) spirit in the branch of an elder bush
  4. (Ostróda) pith (core of a tree)
    Synonym: rdzeń

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Further reading

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  • mucha in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mucha in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • mucha in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “mucha”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207
  • Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “mucha”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 390

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

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Noun

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mucha f (relational adjective mušací or muší, diminutive muška, augmentative mušisko)

  1. fly (insect)

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  • mucha”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

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Determiner

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mucha f sg

  1. feminine singular of mucho

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mucha m

  1. feminine singular of mucho

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mùxa.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmuxa/
  • Rhymes: -uxa
  • Hyphenation: mu‧cha
  • Syllabification: mu‧cha

Noun

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mucha f

  1. (zoology) fly

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Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English muche, muchel, from Old English myċel, miċel, from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz. The unetymological /ә/ was inserted when between consonants.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmʊt͡ʃə/, /mʊt͡ʃ/

Adjective

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mucha

  1. big, much
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 27:
      Mucha boagher.
      A big or high road.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:
      Mucha whithel.
      A winnowing sheet.
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:
      Th' mucha zea sthroan.
      The great sea-strand.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57