different between moly vs mulai

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?ly, from Ancient Greek ???? (môlu) (probably a loanword).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??li/
• Rhymes: -??li

Noun

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)

1. A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
   • 1980, Walter Shrewing, trans. Homer, The Odyssey, Oxford 1998, p.120:

     So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.

2. Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

Etymology 2

Clipping of molybdenum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Homophone: molly

Noun

moly (uncountable)

1. (informal) molybdenum
   • 1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors (page 55)

     The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit.

2. (slang) molybdenum grease

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Czech mol and Slovak mo?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?moj]
• Hyphenation: moly
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

moly (plural molyok)

1. moth (a usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• lepke
• pillangó
• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

Further reading

• moly 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

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (môlu), which was most likely a loanword.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo?.ly/, [?mo?l?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.li/, [?m??li]

Noun

m?ly n (genitive m?lyos); third declension

1. A magic herb used by Odysseus to ward him from the spells of Circe.
2. A plant comparable with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? English: moly

References

• moly in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moly in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moly in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moly in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 990

English

Alternative forms

• moly [17th c.], mulay

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (m?l?y).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mu?le?/

Noun

mulai

1. A title for the ruler of Morocco.
   • 1973, Nikshoy C Chatterji, Muddle of the Middle East, vol.II, p.228:

     Mulay Hafiz appealed to France. France immediately responded by sending a sizable expeditionary force to occupy Morocco.

   • 1992, Ivan van Sertima, Golden Age of the Moor, Journal of African Civilizations Ltd., 2009, p.4:

     One very famous Sultan, Moulai Ismail of Meknes, in Morocco, had as many as 25,000 European slaves who participated in the building of his colossal stables.

Anagrams

• Umali, aumil, lumia, miaul

Indonesian

Preposition

mulai

1. from