mota

See also: Mota, motá, móta, möta, møta, mǿta, mơta, and mô tả

English

Noun

mota (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mootah

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, TMAO, atmo, atom, moat, toma

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mota/, [mo̞.t̪a]

Noun

mota inan

1. type, kind, class
2. (taxonomy) species

   Synonym: espezie

Declension

Declension of mota (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	mota	mota	motak
ergative	motak	motak	motek
dative	motari	motari	motei
genitive	motaren	motaren	moten
comitative	motarekin	motarekin	motekin
causative	motarengatik	motarengatik	motengatik
benefactive	motarentzat	motarentzat	motentzat
instrumental	motaz	motaz	motez
inessive	motatan	motan	motetan
locative	motatako	motako	motetako
allative	motatara	motara	motetara
terminative	motataraino	motaraino	motetaraino
directive	motatarantz	motarantz	motetarantz
destinative	motatarako	motarako	motetarako
ablative	motatatik	motatik	motetatik
partitive	motarik	—	—
prolative	motatzat	—	—

Further reading

• "mota" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “mota” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô. Compare French motte.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/

Noun

mota f (plural motes)

1. mound, hillock
2. (historical) motte
3. clod, block of soil
4. hummock, tussock
5. levee

Derived terms

• castell de mota

Further reading

• “mota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “mota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Galician

Etymology

From Medieval Latin motta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔta̝/

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. (dated) motte, rampart
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa

     the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte

2. mound

Derived terms

• A Mótega
• Mota

References

• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Gothic

Romanization

mōta

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

Hausa

Etymology

From English motor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /móː.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [móː.tàː]

Noun

mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)

1. automobile, car

Italian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: mò‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. mud

   Synonym: fango

Derived terms

• moticchio
• motiglio
• motoso

Anagrams

• Toma, toma

Latin

Participle

mōta

1. inflection of mōtus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

mōtā

1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

References

• mota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mota]

Noun

mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)

1. shoulder

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 115

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: mo‧ta

Verb

mota

1. third-person singular present of motać

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

   Synonyms: moto, motocicleta

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Motte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
• Syllabification: mo‧ta

Noun

mota f

1. moth (insect)

   Hypernym: ôwada

Further reading

• mota in silling.org

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder. Or, possibly from Iberian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmota/ [ˈmo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: mo‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. speck (tiny spot or particle), mote

   Synonyms: partícula, migaja, ápice

2. (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana

   Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto

3. (textile) pill, fluff

Derived terms

• motear
• motero
• motudo

 

Further reading

• “mota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English motor.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

mota (n class, plural mota)

1. motor, engine

Swedish

Verb

mota (present motar, preterite motade, supine motat, imperative mota)

1. to (physically) prevent from going farther (despite attempts), to block

   Den arga mannen försökte ta sig in på puben, men motades av dörrvakterna

   The angry man tried to enter the pub, but was blocked by the bouncers

2. (with a particle like bort (“away”) or undan (“away”)) to (physically) drive away

   Livvakterna motade bort paparazzifotograferna

   The bodyguards pushed (drove (physically)) the paparazzi away

Conjugation

Conjugation of mota (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	mota		motas
Supine	motat		motats
Imperative	mota		—
Imper. plural1	moten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	motar	motade	motas	motades
Ind. plural1	mota	motade	motas	motades
Subjunctive2	mote	motade	motes	motades
	Participles
Present participle	motande
Past participle	motad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• mota Olle i grind

References

• mota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian monte

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. heap, pile

Volapük

Noun

mota

1. genitive singular of mot