mu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mu"

§English

Wikipedia

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← lambda		→ nu
Μ μ Ancient Greek: μῦ
Wikipedia article on mu

§Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek letter μ (m).

§Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muː/, /mjuː/
  • Homophone: moo (first pronunciation only)
  • Homophone: mew (second pronunciation only)
• (US) IPA^(key): /mjuː/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

  • Homophone: mew

§Noun

mu (countable and uncountable, plural mus)

1. The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
2. (uncountable) The name of a mythical floating island.

§Translations

Greek letter

• Arabic: مو m (muu)
• Catalan: mi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繆 (zh), 缪 (zh) (miào), 姆 (zh) (mǔ), 米歐 (zh), 米欧 (mǐ'ōu)

• Czech: mí (cs)
• Danish: my
• Dutch: mu (nl) m, f
• Finnish: myy (fi)
• French: mu (fr) m

• German: My (de) n
• Greek: μι (el) n (mi)
• Hungarian: mű (hu)
• Japanese: ミュー (myū), ミ (ja) (mi)
• Korean: 뮤 (ko) (myu)
• Malay: mu
• Persian: مو (fa) (mu)
• Portuguese: mi (pt) m
• Russian: мю (ru) n (mju)
• Swedish: my (sv)

an instance of that letter

mythical floating island

§Derived terms

• mu-meson, muon
• mu-metal

§Etymology 2

From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”)

§Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /muː/
  • Homophone: moo
• (US) IPA^(key): /mjuː/, /muː/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

  • Homophone: mew (first pronunciation only)
  • Homophone: moo (second pronunciation only)

§Interjection

mu

1. (Zen Buddhism) Neither yes nor no.

§Usage notes

Used to answer a question that if answered with "yes" or "no" would imply something false.

§Etymology 3

From Mandarin 畝 (simplified: 亩) (mǔ)

§Noun

mu (plural mu)

1. A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to 666 and 2/3 meters squared.
   • 2007 — Chang Liu, “Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949”, page 87

     Of 114 village farming families, only ten had more than 30 mu of land and only five had more than 60 mu.

§Anagrams

• um, 'um, UM

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§Asturian

§Interjection

mu

1. moo (sound made by a cow or bull)

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§Czech

§Pronunciation

• Audio

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§Pronoun

mu

1. Singular dative masculine of on

§Synonyms

• jemu

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§Extremaduran

§Adverb

mu

1. very

§See also

• muchu

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§French

§Noun

mu m (plural mu)

1. mu (Greek letter)

§External links

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

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§Indonesian

§Etymology

From Malay mu, shortened form of kamu, from Proto-Malayic *kamu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu.

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

§Pronoun

mu

1. you

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§Italian

§Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

§Noun

mu m, f (invariable)

1. The name of the letter M

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§Japanese

§Romanization

mu

1. rōmaji reading of む
2. rōmaji reading of ム

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§Kom (Cameroon)

§Etymology 1

§Noun

mu

1. water

§Etymology 2

§Adjective

mu

1. old

§References

• Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

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§Lojban

Lojban cardinal numbers

vo	mu	xa
Cardinal : mu     Ordinal : mumai     Adverbial : muroi     Distributive : mumei     Quantified : mumoi     Higher-Order Ordinal : mumo'o

§Cmavo

mu (rafsi mum)

1. five

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§Malay

§Etymology

Shortened form of kamu, from Proto-Malayic *kamu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu.

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/
• Rhymes: -mu, -u

§Pronoun

mu

1. you

§See also

Malay personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person	familiar	aku / اکو	kami / کامي (exclusive) kita / کيت (inclusive)
	polite	saya / ساي
2nd person	familiar	engkau / اڠکاو kamu / کامو awak / اوق
	polite	anda / اندا
3rd person		dia / دي ia / اي -nya / -ڽ	mereka / مريک

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§Mandarin

§Romanization

mu

1. Nonstandard spelling of mú.
2. Nonstandard spelling of mǔ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mù.

§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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§Polish

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mu]

§Pronoun

mu

1. Dative singular mute form of on.

§See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

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§Portuguese

§Etymology

Latin mūlus (“mule”)

§Noun

mu m

1. mule

§Synonyms

• mulo

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§Scottish Gaelic

§Preposition

mu

1. about, around

   Bha craobhan mu ghàrradh an taighe. ― There were trees around the house's yard.

2. about, concerning

   Bha sinn a' bruidhinn mu làithean san sgoil againn. ― We were talking about our days at school.

3. about, approximately

   Bidh a' chuairt a' toirt mu thrì uairean. ― The trip will take about three hours.

§Usage notes

• Lenites the following word.

§Derived terms

Derived terms

• mu chuairt (“around”)

• mu chuairt air (“about”)

• mu dheidhinn (“concerning”)

• mu dheireadh (“last (adjective); at last”)

• mun cuairt (“around”)

• The following prepositional pronouns:

Person	Number	Prepositional pronoun	Prepositional pronoun (emphatic)
Singular	1st	umam	umamsa
	2nd	umad	umadsa
	3rd m	uime	uimesan
	3rd f	uimpe	uimpese
Plural	1st	umainn	umainne
	2nd	umaibh	umaibhse
	3rd	umpa	umpasan

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§Serbo-Croatian

§Pronoun

mu (Cyrillic spelling му)

1. to him (clitic dative singular of ȏn (“he”))
2. to it (clitic dative singular of òno (“it”))

§Declension

    Inflection of 3rd-person pronouns

	Singular			Plural
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	ȏn	òna	òno	òni	òne	òna
genitive	njȅga, ga	njȇ, je	njȅga, ga	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
dative	njȅmu, mu	njȏj, joj	njȅmu, mu	njȉma, im	njȉma, im	njȉma, im
accusative	njȅga, ga, nj	njȗ, ju, je, nju	njȅga, ga, nj	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih	njȋh, ih
vocative	-	-	-	-	-	-
locative	njȅm, njȅmu	njȏj	njȅm, njȅmu	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma
instrumental	njȋm, njíme	njȏm, njóme	njȋm, njíme	njȉma	njȉma	njȉma

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§Spanish

§Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

§Noun

mu f (plural múes)

1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
2. moo (sound of a cow)

§Synonyms

• mi

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§Swedish

§Interjection

mu

1. moo

§Noun

mu n

1. moo; the sound of a cow or a bull

§See also

• råma

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§Turkish

§Preposition

mu

1. Used to form interrogatives.

   Ona bu soruyu sordun mu?

   Did you ask him/her this question?

   Mutlu musun?

   Are you happy?

   Pikniğe gitmiyor muyuz?

   Aren't we going for a picnic?

§Usage notes

• Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative prepositions, as well as the past tense suffixes.
• This preposition is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "o" or "u". Other prepositions used with different vowels are: mı?, mi? and mü?

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§Volapük

§Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish muy (“very”).

§Adverb

mu

1. extremely