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English

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun

moya (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
   • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:

     These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

Synonyms

• mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud

Further reading

• moya in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moya in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Anagrams

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

Buruwai

Noun

moya

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. air
2. wind

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

môya

1. wind

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. wind

Rawang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?(?).ja?/

Noun

moya

1. colour.

Synonyms

• nv?mya

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3 (uncountable)

1. wind

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3

1. wind

English

Etymology

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Noun

moha (uncountable)

1. A kind of millet, Setaria italica; German millet.

Anagrams

• Homa

Hungarian

Etymology

From an older variant moh (“moss”) +? -a (possessive suffix). The older form was borrowed from a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *m?x? (“moss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo??]
• Hyphenation: mo?ha
• Rhymes: -h?

Noun

moha (plural mohák)

1. moss (any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• moha 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

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (moha).

Noun

moha m

1. stupidity
2. delusion

Declension

Derived terms

• samoha