different between moxa vs mota

English

Etymology

From Japanese ? (mogusa, “mugwort”). The u is not strongly pronounced in Japanese, leading to its disappearance and the devoicing of the plosive. First used by Hermann Buschoff, a Dutch minister in Batavia, who wrote the first book about this remedy in 1674.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ks?/

Noun

moxa (countable and uncountable, plural moxas)

1. Dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, Artemisia argyi as used in moxibustion.
2. Any other plant used in moxibustion.

Derived terms

• moxibustion

Translations

See also

• moxibustion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Munsee

Particle

móxa

1. very

References

• O'Meara, John (2014) , “móxa”, in Delaware-English/English-Delaware Dictionary (Heritage), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, published 1996, ?ISBN

English

Noun

mota (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mootah

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, TMAO, atmo, atom, moat, toma

Galician

Etymology

From Medieval Latin motta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ta?/

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. (dated) motte, rampart
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa

     the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte

2. mound

Derived terms

• A Mótega
• Mota

References

• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Gothic

Romanization

m?ta

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hausa

Etymology

From English motor.

Noun

m?t?? f (plural m?t?c?, possessed form m?tàr?)

1. automobile, car

Italian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. mud

   Synonym: fango

Derived terms

• moticchio
• motiglio
• motoso

Anagrams

• toma

Latin

Participle

m?ta

1. nominative feminine singular of m?tus
2. nominative neuter plural of m?tus
3. accusative neuter plural of m?tus
4. vocative feminine singular of m?tus
5. vocative neuter plural of m?tus

Participle

m?t?

1. ablative feminine singular of m?tus

References

• mota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lingala

Noun

mota 1 (plural bato 2)

1. man

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.ta/

Verb

mota

1. third-person singular present of mota?

Portuguese

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

   Synonyms: (chiefly Brazil) moto, motocicleta

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Motte.

Noun

mota f

1. moth (insect)

   Hypernym: ôwad

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder. Or, possibly from Iberian [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mota/, [?mo.t?a]

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. speck (tiny spot)

   Synonyms: ápice, partícula, migaja

2. (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana

   Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto

3. fluff, pill

Derived terms

• motear
• motero
• motudo

References

Swahili

Etymology

From English motor.

Noun

mota (n class, plural mota)

1. motor, engine

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian monte

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. heap, pile

Volapük

Noun

mota

1. genitive singular of mot