mudar

• madar

Borrowed from Hindi मदार (madār).

mudar (uncountable)

1. Any shrub of two species of 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)

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

• Murad, mudra, mudrā

Inherited from Latin mūtāre.

• IPA^(key): /muˈda(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: mu‧dar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mudar

1. to change, alter

• “mudar”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

Inherited from Old Leonese mudar from Latin mūtāre.

• IPA^(key): /muˈdaɾ/ [muˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mu‧dar

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

1. to change

   Synonyms: camudar, cambiar, demudar

2. to change clothes
3. to fall (teeth)
4. (reflexive) to move (to change residence)
5. (reflexive) to change clothes

• mudar el fetu
• mudar la boca
• mudaderu

• mudanza
• demudar
• camudar
• escamudar
• remudar
• muda

• “mudar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “mudar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Catalan mudar, from Latin mūtāre. Doublet of mutar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [muˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [muˈðaɾ]

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

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

• moure
• mutar

• “mudar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mudar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mudar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mudar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mudar, from Latin mūtāre. Doublet of the reborrowed mutar.

• IPA^(key): [muˈðaɾ]

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

1. (ambitransitive) to moult

   Synonym: esplumar

2. (transitive) to change

   Synonyms: cambiar, modificar, transformar

3. (pronominal) to move, to relocate (to settle into a new home)

   Synonyms: cambiar, modificar, transformar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mudar”, 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), “mudar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mudar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mudar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mudar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mudar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mudar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mudar, from Latin mūtāre. Doublet of mutar.

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• Hyphenation: mu‧dar

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

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

   Synonyms: alterar, modificar, mutar, transformar

   Mudei os meus planos.

   I changed my plans.

2. (pronominal) to move, to relocate (to settle into a new home)

   Synonym: deslocar

   Eles mudaram-se de casa.

   They moved house.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mudar.

• “mudar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mudar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mǫdrъ. Cognate with Greek μαθαίνω (mathaíno), German munter, and Czech moudrý.

• IPA^(key): /mǔːdar/
• Hyphenation: mu‧dar

múdar (Cyrillic spelling му́дар, definite mȗdrī, comparative mudriji)

1. wise

• “mudar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /muˈdaɾ/ [muˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mu‧dar

Inherited from Old Spanish mudar, from Latin mutāre. Doublet of the borrowed mutar. Cognate with English moult. Compare English mutate.

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

1. (transitive, reflexive) to move, relocate, move to a new house
2. (transitive, reflexive) to change, alter, vary
3. (transitive, reflexive) to convert
4. (reflexive) to shed, molt
5. (reflexive) to change one's clothes

From Hindi मदार (madār).

mudar m (plural mudares)

1. crown flower (Calotropis gigantea)

• “mudar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

mudar

1. blood

   Synonym: daro

• J. Warneck (1906), Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1], Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, page 130