mul

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mul

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for multiple languages.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Translingual terms

mul

1. water

• Roger Blench, Jarawan Bantu: New data and its relation to Bantu (2006), page 13

From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴬ (“pig”). Cognate with Thai หมู (mǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, Lao ໝູ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), Tai Dam ꪢꪴ, Tai Nüa ᥛᥧᥴ (mú), Shan မူ (mǔu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Zhuang mou, Nong Zhuang mu, Saek หมู่.

• IPA^(key): /mu˨˦/

mul

1. pig

From Latin mūlus.

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -ul

mul m (plural muls, feminine mula, feminine plural mules)

1. mule

• mular
• mulat
• mulater
• mulenc

• “mul”, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmul]
• Hyphenation: mul
• Rhymes: -ul

Borrowed from Latin mūlus.

mul m anim (relational adjective mulový or mulí)

1. mule (a hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)

   Alternative form: mula f

• mezek

Borrowed from English mull.

mul m inan (relational adjective mulový)

1. gauze (cotton fabric)

   Synonym: gáza

• “mul”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “mul”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “mul”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• mal

From Latin malus.

mul

1. bad

mul m

1. evil

mul

1. imperative of mule

mul

1. adessive singular of ma

• Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, minul (adessive of mina) is used.

• mol, moul (Old Lyonnais)

Inherited from Latin mūlus.

mul m (Old Dauphinois)

1. male mule

• mulèt

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mūlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 211

From Proto-Slavic *mulъ (“mule”), from Latin mūlus. Cognate with Polish muł, Czech mula, Serbo-Croatian mȕla, and Russian мул (mul).

• IPA^(key): /mul/

mul m anim (female equivalent mula)

1. mule (generic or male)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “mul”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “mul”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

mul

1. alternative form of mollen

mul

1. alternative form of mule

mul

1. alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *mūl.

• IPA^(key): /muːl/
• Rhymes: -uːl

mūl m

1. mule

Strong a-stem:

mul oblique singular, m (oblique plural mus or muls, nominative singular mus or muls, nominative plural mul)

1. mule (animal)

mul m (genitive muil, nominative plural muil)

1. mass, heap, lump

• mullach

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mul

1. dative singular of mol

• IPA^(key): /ˈmul/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: mul
• Homophones: mól, Mól, Mul

Borrowed from French moule. Doublet of muskuł and muszla.

mul m animal

1. (informal) blue mussel (Mytilus edulis)

   Synonym: omułek jadalny

2. (informal) Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)

   Synonym: omułek śródziemnomorski

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mul

1. second-person singular imperative of mulić

• “mul”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مول (mūl), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan).

mul m (plural mwalin, feminine equivalent mulat, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵍ)

1. owner, caretaker or person responsible for something

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[2], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[3], Paris, France: HAL

mul

1. romanization of 𒀯 (mul)

mul

1. abundant, full

• IPA^(key): [mul]

mul (genitive mula, plural muls)

1. month

• -ul (“bound morpheme: month”)
• yanul (yan- + -ul): January; febul (feb- + -ul): February; mäzul (mäz- + -ul): March; prilul (pril- + -ul): April; mayul (may- + -ul): May; yunul (yun- + -ul): June; yulul (yul- + -ul): July; gustul (gust- + -ul): August; setul (set- + -ul): September; tobul (tob- + -ul): October; novul (nov- + -ul): November; dekul (dek- + -ul) December
• balul (bal “one” + -ul): January; telul (tel “two” + -ul): February; kilul (kil “three” + -ul): March; folul (fol “four” + -ul): April; lulul (lul “five” + -ul): May; mälul (mäl “six” + -ul): June; velul (vel “seven” + -ul): July; jölul (jöl “eight” + -ul): August; zülul (zül “nine” + -ul): September; degul (deg “ten” + -ul): October; degbalul (degbal “eleven” + -ul): November [cf. babul (balsebal + -ul) and degbul (degb- +-ul)]; degtelul (degtel “twelve” + -ul): December [cf. batul (balsetel + -ul) and degtul (degt- + -ul)]

• “mul”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

From Middle Welsh mul, from Proto-Brythonic *mʉl (compare Middle Breton mul), from Latin mūlus.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /mɨːl/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /miːl/
• Rhymes: -ɨːl
• Homophone: mil (South Wales)

mul m (plural mulod or muloedd or mulioedd, feminine mules)

1. mule, hinny

   Synonyms: mŵl, miwl

2. shoemaker's last

• llyncu mul (“to sulk”)
• yn ei ful (“sulking, in a sulk”)

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “mul”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Old Frisian middel, from Proto-Germanic *midlą. More at middle.

mul c (plural mullen, diminutive multsje)

1. middle
2. waist

• mulwurd

• “mul (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

mul

1. to fall