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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???(?)l/, /?mo???l/

Etymology 1

Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian Subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. A rich or powerful person; a magnate.

   Synonyms: magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Translations

Etymology 2

From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. (skiing) A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
2. A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
3. A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.

Derived terms

• mogulist

Translations

Verb

mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle moguling, simple past and past participle moguled)

1. (skiing) To ski over a course of humps or bumps.

Further reading

• mogul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mogul, from Persian ????? (mu?ul, “Mongol”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo?ul]
• Hyphenation: mo?gul
• Rhymes: -ul

Noun

mogul (plural mogulok)

1. (historical) Mughal, Moghul (a member of the Mughal dynasty)
2. mogul (a rich and powerful person)

Declension

Derived terms

• nagymogul

References

Further reading

• mogul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

From English mogul.

Noun

mogul m (plural moguli)

1. mogul

Declension