mua

mua

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mundang.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mundang terms

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

mua

1. (to) me

mua

1. front

mua

1. second person plural

mua

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

From Proto-Oceanic *muqa from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muqa (compare with Iban mua).^[1][2]

mua (mua)

1. to head to somewhere

mua (vakamua)

1. to steer, to helm

mua

1. side or end of a land

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “mua”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 175

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

mua

1. sailor, mariner

mua

1. (colloquial) partitive singular of mä

• minua

• -uma, mau

mua

1. third-person singular past historic of muer

mua

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

From Proto-Polynesian *muqa (“first, preceding” – compare with Maori mua, Tahitian mua, Tongan muʻa, Samoan mua),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *muqa (“to be in front” – ompare with Fijian mua “to head somewhere”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muqa (compare with Iban mua).^[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.a/, [ˈmu.wə]

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

• muamua
• ʻoumuamua

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

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

mua

1. (anatomy) face

From Hokkien 鰻 / 鳗 (môa, “eel”).

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

mua (plural mua-mua)

1. (dialectal) eel

   Synonym: belut

• “mua”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

mua m (genitive singular mua, nominative plural muanna)

1. clouded apparition, mysterious figure

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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

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

mua (genitive muan, partitive muata or muada)

1. earth
2. land
3. soil

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “mua”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɑ̯/
• Hyphenation: mua
• Rhymes: -uɑ̯

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

mua (genitive muan, partitive muadu)

1. earth
2. ground, soil
3. world
4. country
5. place, region

Related to Veps muja.

mua (genitive muan, partitive muadu)

1. colour

• Olga Žarinova (2012), Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 10
• Tatjana Boiko (2019), “mua”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɑ̯/
• Hyphenation: mua
• Rhymes: -uɑ̯

mua

1. earth, dirt
2. country

• Miikul Pahomov (2016), “mua”, in Учебный словарь литературного людиковского языка‎^[2], page 29

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈmwa/ [ˈmwa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: mua

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mua (Jawi spelling موا)

1. (of spoilt children) cheeky; peevish^[1]

mua (Jawi spelling موا, plural mua-mua)

1. Ellipsis of burung mua (“a type of pheasant; Lophura diardi”)

   Hypernym: pegar

Possibly borrowed from Betawi mua.

mua (Jawi spelling موا, plural mua-mua)

1. Ellipsis of ikan mua (“a type of eel”)^[1]

   Hypernym: belut

• “mua”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Proto-Polynesian *muqa (“first, preceding” – compare with Tahitian mua, Tongan muʻa, Samoan mua),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *muqa (“to be in front” – compare with Fijian mua “to head somewhere”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muqa (compare with Iban mua “face”).^[2][3]

mua

1. front, forward

ā mua

1. to the future

o mua, i mua

1. former, past, old

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “mua”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 248
• “mua” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

mua

1. man

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

mua

1. 2nd person dual pronoun: you two

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

• mũa, muha

Inherited from Latin mūla, from mūlus + -a. Doublet of mula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmua/
• Rhymes: -ua
• Hyphenation: mu‧a

m=muu

mua f (plural muas)

1. female equivalent of muu (“female mule”)

   Synonyms: mũacha, mula

   • 13th century, Denis of Portugal, [cantiga 1537]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1537:

     Leuoulho roçin e leixoulha mua

     He stole his nag, leaving him his mule.

• Fala: múa

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “mua”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mua”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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mua class III (plural miwa class IV)

1. alternative spelling of muwa

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]

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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".

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

(classifier cây) mua

1. melastoma (genus Melastoma)