mua

See also: MUA, mưa, múa, mùa, and mu'a

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *moN, from Proto-Indo-European *me- (“me”).

Pronoun

mua

1. (to) me

Related terms

• meje
• më

 

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Anuta

Adjective

mua

1. front

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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mua

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄇㄨㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mua
    • Zhuyin: ˙ㄇㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: muå
    • Wade–Giles: mua⁵
    • Yale: mwa
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .mua
    • Palladius: муа (mua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ä/

Interjection

1. (Mainland China, neologism, slang, onomatopoeic) mwah

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Finnish

Pronoun

mua

1. (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) partitive of mä

See also

• minua

Anagrams

• -uma, mau

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French

Verb

mua

1. third-person singular past historic of muer

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Hawaiian

Noun

mua

1. (locative noun) before, in front of, first, ahead, forward, in advance, future, front
2. (locative noun) former, foremost, primary, principal
3. (locative noun) previously, beforehand
4. (locative noun) oldest, older sibling
5. (locative noun) senior branch of a family
6. (locative noun) leader, senior partner
7. (locative noun) more than
8. men’s eating house

Derived terms

• ʻoumuamua

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Min Nan 鰻／鳗 (môa, “eel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmua̯]
• Hyphenation: mua

Noun

mua (first-person possessive muaku, second-person possessive muamu, third-person possessive muanya)

1. eel.

   Synonym: belut

Further reading

• “mua” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish muad (“cloud, mist, fumes”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *moudo-.

Noun

mua m (genitive singular mua, nominative plural muanna)

1. clouded apparition, mysterious figure

Declension

Declension of mua

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative mua muanna Vocative a mhua a mhuanna Genitive mua muanna Dative mua muanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an mua na muanna Genitive an mhua na muanna Dative leis an mua don mhua leis na muanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mua	mhua	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Karelian

Etymology

From .

Noun

mua (genitive muan, partitive muada)

1. earth, ground, land

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Livvi

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

mua (genitive muan, partitive muadu)

1. earth, ground, land

Declension

Declension of mua, {{{grad1}}}-{{{grad2}}} gradation singular plural nominative mua muakse genitive muan – partitive muadu muattah inessive muan muanke elative muas muači illative muaspäi muat adessive muah mualoin ablative mual mualoi essive mualpäi muat translative muale mualois abessive muannu mualoispäi instructive mualoih comitative mualoil

Etymology 2

Akin to Veps muja.

Noun

mua

1. color

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Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

mua

1. earth

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Mauwake

Noun

mua

1. man

Further reading

• Liisa Berghäll, A grammar of Mauwake (2015, →ISBN
• Mauwake - English dictionary (2007, SIL)

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Niuean

Pronoun

mua

1. 2nd person dual pronoun: you two

See also

Niuean personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person			au	maua (exclusive) taua (inclusive)	mautolu (exclusive) tautolu (inclusive)
2nd person			koe	mua	mutolu
3rd person			ia	laua	lautolu

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Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mula, mũa

Etymology

From Latin mūla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.a/

Noun

mua f

1. mule (female)
   • 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, King Denis of Portugal, B 1537: Joam Bol'anda mal debaratado (facsimile)

     Leuoulho roçin e leixoulha mua

     He stole his nag, leaving him his mule.

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Swahili

Noun

mua (m-mi class, plural miwa)

1. Alternative spelling of muwa

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [muə˧˧]

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 務 (“to seek”, SV: vụ) (Haudricourt, 1954); cognate with Muong mua. The common Vietic word for “to buy” is chác (from Proto-Vietic *caːk), now obsolete and mainly used in compounds.

Verb

mua • (𧷸, 模, 謨, 𡃗)

1. to buy; to purchase

   Synonym: sắm

   Antonym: bán

2. to bribe; to square
3. to bring upon oneself; to court

Derived terms

Derived terms

• mua bán
• mua buôn
• mua chuộc
• mua dâm
• mua đường
• mua gom
• mua lẻ
• mua sắm
• mua sỉ
• mua việc
• mua vui
• sức mua
• thu mua
• trưng mua

 

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cây) mua

1. melastoma (genus Melastoma)