different between mule vs muke

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mju?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l
• Homophone: mewl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English m?l, both from Latin m?lus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic ????? (m?šk?, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) ?????? (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).

Noun

mule (plural mules)

1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
3. (dated) A hybrid plant.
4. (informal) A stubborn person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stubborn person
5. (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
6. (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
7. (role-playing games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mule.
8. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
9. (sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
10. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

Synonyms

• (sterile hybrid of donkey and horse): Missouri canary

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ass
• donkey
• hinny (male horse X female donkey)
• horse

Verb

mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)

1. (transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).

Etymology 2

From Middle French mule (“slipper”), from Latin mulleus calceus (“red shoe”), from mullus (“red”).

Noun

mule (plural mules)

1. A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

Translations

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?l?/, [?mu?l?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *m?lô.

Noun

mule c (singular definite mulen, plural indefinite muler)

1. muzzle

Inflection

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

mule (imperative mul, infinitive at mule, present tense muler, past tense mulede, perfect tense har mulet)

1. pommel, pummel, pound, lick
2. sulk

Synonyms

• (pommel): banke, tæve
• (sulk): surmule

French

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old French mule, from Latin m?la, feminine of m?lus.

Noun

mule f (plural mules)

1. mule (animal)
2. mule (footwear)
3. mule (for drug smuggling)

   Synonym: bouletteux

Derived terms

• têtu comme une mule

Italian

Noun

mule f

1. plural of mula

Anagrams

• lume

Latin

Noun

m?le

1. vocative singular of m?lus

References

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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mul?/, [?mul?]

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative plural of mul
2. inflection of mula:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mewle, moyle, muile, mul, muyle

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mule, from Latin m?la, feminine of m?lus; reinforced by native Old English m?l, from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?miu?l(?)/

Noun

mule (plural mules)

1. mule (donkey-horse hybrid)
2. (rare) hinny
3. (rare) idiot

Descendants

• English: mule
• Scots: mule

References

• “m?l(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *m?lô.

Noun

mule m (definite singular mulen, indefinite plural muler, definite plural mulene)

1. muzzle

References

• “mule” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ulme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *m?lô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²m??.l?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

mule m (definite singular mulen, indefinite plural mular, definite plural mulane)

1. muzzle

Related terms

• myle

Verb

mule (present tense mular, past tense mula, past participle mula, passive infinitive mulast, present participle mulande, imperative mul)

1. (intransitive) to pout

References

• “mule” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ulme

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *m?lô.

Noun

m?le m

1. muzzle

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: mule

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu.l?/
• Homophone: mul?

Noun

mule

1. locative/vocative singular of mu?

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mul

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mula

Adjective

mule

1. inflection of muli:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• mule in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Volapük

Noun

mule

1. dative singular of mul

English

Etymology 1

Noun

muke (plural mukes)

1. Alternative form of mook
   • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [1]

     Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.

Etymology 2

Mandarin, perhaps ?? (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Noun

muke (plural muke)

1. (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
   • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [2]

     According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

Anagrams

• Kemu

Chimwiini

Noun

muke 1 (plural wake)

1. woman

Antonyms

• mubli (“man”)

Further reading

• Larry M. Hyman, Suffix ordering in Bantu, in Yearbook of Morphology 2002, edited by Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, page 259
• An introduction to African linguistics (2000), citing Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1979

East Futuna

Verb

muke

1. To set a goal.

Noun

muke

1. A fixed goal.

References

• Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie [3]

Japanese

Romanization

muke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malay

Noun

muke

1. (dialectal, Pontianak) face

Manchu

Romanization

muke

1. Romanization of ????

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

muke

1. Alternative form of mek

Etymology 2

Noun

muke

1. Alternative form of muk
   • 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp [4]

     Pietie it wer thow suld ly in this mydding,

     Be buryit thus amang this muke and mold,

     And thow so fair and warth sa mekill gold.

Etymology 3

Verb

muke

1. Alternative form of mukken

Nage

Noun

muke

1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

• Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

muke (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of muka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural