mou

See also: MOU, MoU, móu, mòu, mōu, and mǒu

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mouw, from Middle Dutch mouwe, from Old Dutch *mouwa, *mōwa, from Frankish *mauwa, from Proto-Germanic *mawwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mœu̯/

Noun

mou (plural moue)

1. sleeve

Derived terms

• die aap uit die mou laat
• in sy mou lag

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Aiwoo

Adjective

mou

1. dark grue (dark green, dark blue)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin modus.

Noun

mou m (plural moos)

1. way; manner
2. result

Derived terms

• a mou
• d'otru mou
• de mou que

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔw/
• Rhymes: -ɔw

Verb

mou

1. third-person singular present indicative form of moure
2. second-person singular imperative form of moure

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French

Etymology

From Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollis, mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)moldus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

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Adjective

mou (masculine singular before vowel mol, feminine singular molle, masculine plural mous, feminine plural molles)

1. soft, pliable
2. (informal) pansy, spineless

   Quelle bande de couilles molles!

   What a bunch of pansy (ass) wimps!

Noun

mou m (plural mous)

1. lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal)

Further reading

• “mou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Mandarin

Romanization

mou

1. Nonstandard spelling of mōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of móu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǒu.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mòu.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Old Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔw/

Verb

mou

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover

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Zhuang

Etymology

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 (muu), Bouyei mul, Nong Zhuang mu, Saek หมู่.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /mou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: mou¹
• Hyphenation: mou

Noun

mou (old orthography mou, Sawndip forms 𭸘, 𭸙, 𤝖, 某, 𭸲, classifier duz)

1. pig

Derived terms

• moubing
• moucauz
• mouduenh
• mougangq
• mougo
• mougvaqcauz
• mougyauh
• mouhaeuxsan
• moulangz
• moumehrangx
• moumixsan
• mounoh
• mouraemx
• mouraih
• mouraq
• mouseng
• mousij
• muimou
• roengqmou
• songzmou
• sugmou