mua

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *moN, from Proto-Indo-European *me- (“me”).

Pronoun

mua

  1. (to) me

Anuta

Adjective

mua

  1. front

Chinese

Pronunciation

Interjection

mua

  1. (Mainland China, neologism, slang, onomatopoeic) mwah

Fijian

Noun

mua

  1. sailor, mariner

Finnish

Pronoun

mua

  1. (colloquial) partitive of mä

See also

Anagrams

French

Verb

mua

  1. third-person singular past historic of muer

Galician

Verb

mua

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of muar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mua, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muqa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmu.a/, [ˈmu.wə]

Noun

mua

  1. (locative noun) before, in front of, first, ahead, forward, in advance, future, front
    E inu ma mua o ka ʻai.
    Drink before eating.
  2. (locative noun) former, foremost, primary, principal
  3. (locative noun) previously, beforehand
  4. (locative noun) oldest, older sibling
  5. (locative noun) senior branch of a family
  6. (locative noun) leader, senior partner
  7. (locative noun) more than
  8. men’s eating house

Derived terms

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *muha, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muqa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mua/
  • Hyphenation: mu‧a

Noun

mua

  1. (anatomy) face

Indonesian

Etymology

From Hokkien 鰻／鳗 (môa, “eel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmua̯/
  • Hyphenation: mua

Noun

mua (first-person possessive muaku, second-person possessive muamu, third-person possessive muanya)

  1. eel
    Synonym: belut

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish muad (“cloud, mist, fumes”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *moudo-.

Noun

mua m (genitive singular mua, nominative plural muanna)

  1. clouded apparition, mysterious figure

Declension

Declension of mua

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mua muanna
Vocative a mhua a mhuanna
Genitive mua muanna
Dative mua muanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mua na muanna
Genitive an mhua na muanna
Dative leis an mua

don mhua

leis na muanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mua mhua not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Karelian

Regional variants of mua
North Karelian
(Viena) 		mua
South Karelian
(Tver) 		mua

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa. Cognates include Finnish maa and Estonian maa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuɑ̯/
  • Hyphenation: mua

Noun

mua (genitive muan, partitive muata or muada)

  1. earth
  2. land
  3. soil

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of mua (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mua muat
genitive muan maijen
partitive muata maita
illative muah maih
inessive muašša maissa
elative muašta maista
adessive mualla mailla
ablative mualta mailta
translative muakši maiksi
essive muana maina
comitative — maineh
abessive muatta maitta
Tver Karelian declension of mua (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mua muat
genitive muan main
partitive muada maida
illative muah maih
inessive muašša maissa
elative muašta maista
adessive mualla mailla
ablative mualda mailda
translative muakši maiksi
essive muana maina
comitative muanke mainke
abessive muatta maitta
Possessive forms of mua
1st person muani
2nd person muaš
3rd person muah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “mua”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры), →ISBN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja, →ISBN

Livvi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Muadu (1).

From Proto-Finnic *maa. Cognates include Finnish maa and Estonian maa.

Noun

mua (genitive muan, partitive muadu)

  1. earth
  2. ground, soil
  3. world
  4. country
  5. place, region
Declension
Declension of mua (Type 15/suu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mua muat
genitive muan mualoin
partitive muadu mualoi
illative muah mualoih
inessive muas mualois
elative muaspäi mualoispäi
allative muale mualoile
adessive mual mualoil
ablative mualpäi mualoilpäi
translative muakse mualoikse
essive muannu mualoinnu
abessive muattah mualoittah
comitative muanke mualoinke
instructive mualoiči
prolative muači

Etymology 2

Äijy eri mualoi (2).

Related to Veps muja.

Noun

mua (genitive muan, partitive muadu)

  1. colour
Declension
Declension of mua (Type 15/suu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mua muat
genitive muan mualoin
partitive muadu mualoi
illative muah mualoih
inessive muas mualois
elative muaspäi mualoispäi
allative muale mualoile
adessive mual mualoil
ablative mualpäi mualoilpäi
translative muakse mualoikse
essive muannu mualoinnu
abessive muattah mualoittah
comitative muanke mualoinke
instructive mualoiči
prolative muači

References

  • Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse, St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 10
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “mua”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh), 2nd edition, →ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *maa. Cognates include Finnish maa and Veps ma.

Pronunciation

Noun

mua

  1. earth
  2. country

Declension

Declension of mua (Type 7/mua, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mua muad
genitive muan muaiden
partitive muad muaid
illative muahe muaihe
inessive muas muaiš
elative muaspiä muaišpiä
allative muale muaile
adessive mual muail
ablative mualpiä muailpiä
translative muaks muaikš
essive muan muain
abessive muata muaita
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

References

  • Miikul Pahomov (2016) “mua”, in Учебный словарь литературного людиковского языка‎[1], page 29

Mauwake

Noun

mua

  1. man

Further reading

  • Liisa Berghäll, A grammar of Mauwake (2015, →ISBN
  • Mauwake - English dictionary (2007, SIL)

Niuean

Pronoun

mua

  1. 2nd person dual pronoun: you two

See also

Niuean personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person au maua (exclusive)
taua (inclusive) 		mautolu (exclusive)
tautolu (inclusive)
2nd person koe mua mutolu
3rd person ia laua lautolu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mua f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer or muor, definite plural muene or muone)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of mue
  2. definite singular of mue

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mūla.

Pronunciation

Noun

mua f (plural muas)

  1. female mule

Descendants

  • Portuguese: mua

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

mua (m-mi class, plural miwa)

  1. Alternative spelling of muwa

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 務 (“to seek”, SV: vụ) (Haudricourt, 1954); cognate with Muong mua.

The common Vietic word for “to buy” is chác (from Proto-Vietic *caːk), now obsolete and mainly used in compounds. See also tậu, a Tai loanword, and sắm, which has originally meaning of "to prepare".

Verb

mua • (𧷸, 模, 謨, 𡃗)

  1. to buy; to purchase
    Synonyms: tậu, sắm
    Antonym: bán
  2. to bribe; to square
  3. to bring upon oneself; to court
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cây) mua

  1. melastoma (genus Melastoma)
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