different between shrub vs mudar

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: shr?b, IPA^(key): /???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *s?rob (in placenames) and s?rybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”).

Noun

shrub (plural shrubs)

1. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

Synonyms

• bush (plant)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shrub (third-person singular simple present shrubs, present participle shrubbing, simple past and past participle shrubbed)

1. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Anderson (1573) to this entry?)

2. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.

   For example, /???b/ ? /s??b/

Etymology 2

From Arabic ??????? (šir?b, “a drink, beverage”), ??????? (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet

Noun

shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)

1. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brush, bruhs, brush, burhs

English

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (mad?r).

Noun

mudar (plural mudars)

1. Either of two milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:
   1. Calotropis gigantea (crown flower, giant milkweed)
   2. Calotropis procera (apple of Sodom)

Synonyms

• (Calotropis procera): madar, French cotton, calotropis, rubber bush, apple of Sodom, king's crown, roostertree

Anagrams

• Murad, mudra, mudr?

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin m?t?re, present active infinitive of m?t?.

Verb

mudar (first-person singular indicative present mudo, past participle mudáu)

1. to move (to change residence)

Conjugation

Related terms

• mudanza

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin m?t?re, present active infinitive of m?t?. Doublet of mutar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mu?da/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu?da?/

Verb

mudar (first-person singular present mudo, past participle mudat)

1. change
2. move from one home to another
3. dress very well

Conjugation

Related terms

• moure
• mutar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mudar, from Latin m?t?re, present active infinitive of m?t?. Doublet of the reborrowed mutar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.?ða?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.?da(?)/, [m?.?d?ä(?)]
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /mu.?da(?)/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.?da(?)/

Verb

mudar (first-person singular present indicative mudo, past participle mudado)

1. to change (to become or cause to become something different)

   Synonyms: alterar, modificar, mutar, transformar

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to move, to relocate (to settle into a new home)

   Synonym: deslocar

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mudar.

Derived terms

• mudar-se

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?dr?. Cognate with Greek ??????? (mathaíno), German munter, and Czech moudrý.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

múdar (definite m?dr?, comparative mudriji, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. wise

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?da?/, [mu?ð?a?]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish mudar, from Latin mut?re, present active infinitive of m?t?. Cognate with English moult. Confer English mutate.

Verb

mudar (first-person singular present mudo, first-person singular preterite mudé, past participle mudado)

1. to move, relocate, move to a new house
2. to change, alter, vary
3. to convert
4. to shed, molt
5. to change clothes

Conjugation

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Hindi ???? (mad?r).

Noun

mudar m (plural mudares)

1. crown flower (Calotropis gigantea)

Further reading

• “mudar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.