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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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mo?.l?/

Noun

mola (plural molas)

1. A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique.
   • 1977, Rhoda L. Auld, Molas: What they are, How to make them, Ideas they suggest for creative appliqué, page 67

     The classic mola is pure applique and is distinguished by alternating bands of color.

2. A sunfish, Mola mola.

Translations

Anagrams

• AMLO, LMAO, Malo, lmao, loam, loma, malo

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin mola.

Noun

mola f (plural moles)

1. millstone
2. grindstone

Derived terms

Related terms

• molí

Etymology 2

From Latin m?l?s.

Noun

mola f (plural moles)

1. mass (something large)
2. sunfish

   Synonyms: bot, peix lluna

Related terms

• moll

Further reading

• “mola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mola” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin mollis, French molle, Italian molle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mola/
• Hyphenation: mo?la

Adjective

mola (accusative singular molan, plural molaj, accusative plural molajn)

1. soft

Antonyms

• malmola

Derived terms

• mole (“softly”)

Icelandic

Etymology

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m??la]
• Rhymes: -??la

Verb

mola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative molaði, supine molað)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to shatter, to smash

Conjugation

Ido

Adjective

mola

1. soft

Antonyms

• harda

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /?m??l??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /?m??l??/

Verb

mola

1. inflection of mol:
   1. present subjunctive analytic
   2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).

Noun

mola f (plural mole)

1. millstone
2. grindstone
3. honing
4. (historical, Rome) water mill; especially one of the mills once found adjacent Isola Tiberina.

Related terms

• molare
• molatrice
• mulino / molino
• macina

See also

• macina

Verb

mola

1. third-person singular present indicative of molare
2. second-person singular imperative of molare

See also

• molla

Anagrams

• almo
• malo

Karao

Noun

mola

1. plant

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ml?Hd?o-. Cognates include Latvian mala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?la/

Noun

mola f

1. edge

References

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”). Cognate with Latin mollis, Ancient Greek ???? (múl?), English meal. See also English maelstrom.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mola f (genitive molae); first declension

1. millstone
2. (especially plural) mill
3. ground meal

Declension

First-declension noun.

Hyponyms

• mola aqu?ria (“water mill”)
• mola asin?ria (“Roman stone hand mill, worked by a donkey or mule”)

Derived terms

• immol?
• mol?ris
• mol?rius
• mol?le
• mol?
• mol?crum

Related terms

• moliti?
• molitor
• mol?nus

Descendants

References

• mola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mola f

1. Superseded spelling of móla.

Declension

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?mola/

Verb

mola

1. inflection of mollat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.la/

Noun

mola m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of mól

Noun

mola m inan

1. genitive singular of mol

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian molla (“spring”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo?la

Noun

mola f (plural molas)

1. spring (device made of flexible material)
2. (Portugal) clothes peg (object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline)

   Synonyms: (Madeira) grampo, (Brazil) prisão, (Brazil) prendedor, pregador

3. (Mozambique, informal) money

Further reading

• mola on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Romanian

Etymology

From Turkish molla

Noun

mola f (uncountable)

1. mullah

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mola m

1. genitive singular of mol

Spanish

Verb

mola

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of molar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of molar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of molar.

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (mawlan).

Noun

mola (n class, no plural)

1. God

   Synonyms: Mungu, Maulana

Turkish

Noun

mola (definite accusative molay?, plural molalar)

1. rest.