different between muka vs mauka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

muka (uncountable)

1. Prepared fibre of harakeke, used in traditional Maori weaving.

Anagrams

• Mauk, akum

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muka]

Noun

muka n pl

1. (literary) Agony, torment, ordeal.

Usage notes

• Also used in feminine plural form muky.

Related terms

• mu?it

Further reading

• muka in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• muka in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

(index mu)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muka, probably derived from muu. Akin to Karelian muka, Livvi muga and Veps muga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?muk?/, [?muk?]
• Rhymes: -uk?
• Syllabification: mu?ka

Adverb

muka

1. supposedly, allegedly, as if (used to express that what follows is doubtful or untrue)

Synonyms

• mukamas

See also

• muukalainen

Anagrams

• kamu, maku

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay muka, from Sanskrit ??? (mukha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka
• Rhymes: -ka

Noun

muka (first-person possessive mukaku, second-person possessive mukamu, third-person possessive mukanya)

1. face

   Synonym: wajah

   1. the front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
   2. the public image; outward appearance.
   3. the frontal aspect of something.
2. person.
3. typeface.

   Synonym: pagina

4. previous event.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “muka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kaurna

Noun

muka

1. egg
2. anything of oval or round shape

See also

• yarla-muka (“calf muscle”)
• muka-muka (“the brain”)
• kardlumuka (“scrotum, testes”)
• kuntumuka (“the male breast”)
• ngarrumuka (“scrotum, testes, brain”)

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka; cognate with Upper Sorbian muka, Polish m?ka, Czech mouka, Russian ????? (muká), Old Church Slavonic ???? (m?ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muka]

Noun

muka f (diminutive mucka)

1. flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains)

Declension

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (mukha).

Noun

muka (Jawi spelling ????, plural muka-muka, informal 1st possessive mukaku, impolite 2nd possessive mukamu, 3rd possessive mukanya)

1. face
2. front, facade

Further reading

• “muka” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mwani

Noun

muka 1 (plural waka)

1. wife

Coordinate terms

• nlume

Derived terms

• mwanamuka

Oromo

Noun

muka

1. tree

Phuthi

Verb

-múka

1. to leave, to depart

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rayón Zoque

Noun

muka

1. mushroom

References

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka (“torture, torment”), Cognates include Czech muka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mûka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka

Noun

m?ka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pain
2. torment
3. nausea
4. trouble

Declension

Derived terms

• bez muke nema nauke
• mu?nina

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka (“flour”), Cognates include Czech mouka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka

Noun

múka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional) flour

Declension

Synonyms

• (flour): brašno

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka.

Noun

muka f (genitive singular muky, nominative plural muky, genitive plural múk, declension pattern of žena)

1. torture
2. excruciating pain

Usage notes

• This word is used almost exclusively in the plural. The singular form is used mostly in poetry.

Declension

Derived terms

• mu?i?

Further reading

• muka in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Zulu

Verb

-múka

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of -emuka

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “muka”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “muka (3.9)”

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

Adverb

mauka (not comparable)

1. (Hawaii) inland, towards the mountains.

See also

• makai

Etymology 2

From Aymara mauka (“mauka (Mirabilis expansa)”).

Noun

mauka (plural maukas)

1. The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
2. One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Synonyms

• chago

Anagrams

• Kamau, Makua

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Hawaiian mauka (“towards the mountain”).

Adverb

mauka

1. towards the mountains

See also

• makai

Icelandic

Etymology

From mauk (“mash, purée”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?møy?ka/
• Rhymes: -øy?ka

Verb

mauka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative maukaði, supine maukað)

1. to mash, purée

Conjugation

Latvian

Etymology

Maybe related to maukt.

Pronunciation

Noun

mauka f (4th declension)

1. (colloquial, derogatory, vulgar) indecent, dissolute woman; prostitute, whore

Declension

Synonyms

• ielasmeita
• prostit?ta