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English

Noun

mulla (plural mullas)

1. Archaic form of mullah.
   • 1855, Henry George Raverty, A grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or language of the Afgháns (page v)

     A certain Afridi being desirous to learn to read, went into a village to a Mulla and said to him, that it would be a great favour if he would give him lessons.

Anagrams

• Mallu, Maull

Catalan

Verb

mulla

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

Dharug

Noun

mulla

1. Obsolete form of mula.

Dhudhuroa

Noun

mulla

1. woman (adult female)

References

• 1909, R. H. Mathews, The Dhudhuroa Language of Victoria, in the American Anthropologist

Estonian

Noun

mulla

1. genitive singular of muld

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mul??/, [?mul??]
• Rhymes: -ul??
• Syllabification: mul?la

Etymology 1

Pronoun

mulla

1. (colloquial) Adessive form of minä.

Synonyms

• minulla

Etymology 2

From English mullah, from Turkish molla, Persian ???? (mollâ), from Arabic ???????? (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

Noun

mulla

1. mullah

Declension

Synonyms

• mullah

Quechua

Noun

mulla

1. niece

Declension

See also

• kuncha

Spanish

Verb

mulla

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mullir.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mullir.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mullir.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mullir.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Related to mill (“to grind”).

Verb

mull (third-person singular simple present mulls, present participle mulling, simple past and past participle mulled)

1. (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.

   to mull a thought or a problem

   he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5

     It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
2. To powder; to pulverize.
3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
6. To dull or stupefy.

Derived terms

• mulled wine, mulled cider

Translations

Noun

mull (countable and uncountable, plural mulls)

1. A thin, soft muslin.
2. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

3. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
4. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
5. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

1. (Scotland) A promontory.

   the Mull of Kintyre

2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Etymology 3

From Middle English molle (“rubbish”), from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis.

Noun

mull (uncountable)

1. dirt; rubbish

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

Middle English

Noun

mull

1. Alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

Scots

Noun

mull (plural mulls)

1. headland

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Icelandic mold, German Mull, Dutch moude and Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/

Noun

mull c

1. mould, earth, soil

   Synonym: mylla

2. dust

Declension

References

• mull in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mull in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)