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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mola"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

mola (plural molas)

  1. A sunfish, Mola mola.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Noun

mola (plural molas)

  1. A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique.
    • 1977, Rhoda L. Auld, Molas: What they are, How to make them, Ideas they suggest for creative appliqué, page 67:
      The classic mola is pure applique and is distinguished by alternating bands of color.
    • 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 339:
      Molas originally served, and still serve, as blouse front and backs.
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Albanian

Verb

mola

  1. first-person singular aorist indicative of mjel

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin mola.

Pronunciation

Noun

mola f (plural moles)

  1. millstone, a circular stone of the two that make up the ordinary mill, one is mobile and is rolled over the other, which is fixed
  2. grindstone, an instrument consisting of a piece of an abrasive material that is rotated around its axis and is used for sharpening, polishing, deburring, rectifying, profiling, etc. miscellaneous tools or parts
    passar per la mola ― to overcome, to subdue somebody (an idiom, literally to pass it under the grindstone)
  3. the amount of water needed to move a millstone
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mōlēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

mola f (plural moles)

  1. mass (something large or of great volume)
  2. (geography) an isolated hill of massive form, rounded and flat on top, with very steep upper flanks
  3. (fishing) a lot of fish that go together
  4. a rope that has been coiled to form a spiral
  5. sunfish, a fish of the species Mola mola
    Synonyms: bot, peix lluna

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of molar (“to mock”):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Cornish

Etymology

From mol (“clot”) +‎ -a.

Verb

mola

  1. to clot
    Synonym: kowla

Conjugation

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Mutation

More information unmutated, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From French molle and Italian molle, both from Latin mollis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mola (accusative singular molan, plural molaj, accusative plural molajn)

  1. soft

Antonyms

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Verb

mola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative molaði, supine molað)

  1. to shatter, to smash [with accusative]

Conjugation

More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
More information strong declension (sterk beyging), singular (eintala) ...
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Ido

Adjective

mola

  1. soft

Antonyms

Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of mol:
    1. present subjunctive analytic
    2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Italian

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Una mola (angle grinder)
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Una mola (bench grinder) in operazione

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɔla
  • Hyphenation: mò‧la

Etymology 1

From Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

Noun

mola f (plural mole)

  1. millstone
  2. grindstone
  3. honing
  4. (historical, Romanesco) water mill; especially one of the mills once found adjacent Isola Tiberina
  5. (colloquial) angle grinder, disc grinder, side grinder (power tool with a perpendicular abrasive disc)
    Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola angolare, smerigliatrice angolare, molatrice angolare
  6. (colloquial) bench grinder
    Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola da banco, smerigliatrice da banco, molatrice da banco
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of molare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmola/ [ˈmoː.lʌ]
    • Rhymes: -ola
  • (Sagada, parts of Sabangan) IPA(key): /ˈmora/ [ˈmoː.rʌ]
    • Rhymes: -ora
  • Syllabification: mo‧la

Noun

móla

  1. things planted

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms & variants of mola
More information Southern / Central, Northern / Applai ...

References

  • Allen, Larry (2021), “móla”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics
  • Wallace, Judy (2018), “mola”, in Northern Kankanay – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Karao

Noun

mola

  1. plant

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰo-. Cognates include Latvian mala.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɔla]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧la

Noun

mola f (diminutive maleņa)

  1. edge

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

1) dialectal

References

  • Nicole Nau (2011), A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *molā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Cognate with Latin mollis, Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē), English meal. See also English maelstrom.

Pronunciation

Noun

mola f (genitive molae); first declension

  1. millstone
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.317–318:
      inde focum observat pistor dominamque focōrum,
      et quae pūmiceās versat asella molās.
      Thereupon the baker reverences the hearth and the mistress of the hearth, and the she-donkey that turns the pumice millstones.
      (See Vestalia.)
  2. (especially in the plural) mill
  3. ground meal
  4. (transferred sense) (sacred) flour, coarse-ground meal used in sacrifices
    mola salsa (literally “salted flour”)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.517:
      Ipsa molā manibusque piīs altāria iuxtā, [...].
      And [Dido] herself [stands] near the altars, with the holy meal in her pious hands, [...].

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Hyponyms

  • mola aquāria (“water mill”)
  • mola asināria (“Roman stone hand mill, worked by a donkey or mule”)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: moa, mola, mora
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  • “mola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mola”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mola f

  1. superseded spelling of móla

Declension

declension of mola
More information Singular, Dual ...

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmola/

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of mollat:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

mola m animal

  1. genitive/accusative singular of mól

Noun

mola m inan

  1. genitive singular of mol

Portuguese

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Scottish Gaelic

Spanish

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Welsh

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