muga

See also: MUGA and mūga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Assamese মুগা (muga).

Noun

muga (uncountable)

1. A type of wild silk found in Assam.
   • 2005, Brenda M King, Silk and Empire, p. 71:

     Muga (from the Antheroea Assama moth) silk was produced in Assam; the muga silkworm fed on a tree known as champa.

   • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:

     She was wearing a mauve blouse, a matching mauve bordered sador and a plain muga mekhela.

Anagrams

• GUAM, Guam, Umag, gaum

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Basque

Noun

muga ?

1. limit, border, frontier

   Euskal Herriko muga ― the border of the Basque Country

2. moment, time

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mug.

Noun

muga m (genitive singular muga, nominative plural mugaí)

1. mug (large cup)

Declension

Declension of muga

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative muga mugaí Vocative a mhuga a mhugaí Genitive muga mugaí Dative muga mugaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an muga na mugaí Genitive an mhuga na mugaí Dative leis an muga don mhuga leis na mugaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
muga	mhuga	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) “muga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “mug”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

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Japanese

Romanization

muga

1. Rōmaji transcription of むが

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Karelian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish muka.

Adverb

muga

1. so

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Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish muka.

Adverb

muga

1. so

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Maia

Noun

muga

1. bird

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Old English

Alternative forms

• muha, muwa

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mūgô. Akin to Old Norse múgi (“swathe, crowd”), múgr (“crowd, mob”) (Norwegian muge (“pile, heap”), Faroese múgva/múgvi (“crowd”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.ɡɑ/, [ˈmuː.ɣɑ]

Noun

mūga m (nominative plural mūgan)

1. stack (of hay, grain etc.)

Declension

Declension of muga (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mūga	mūgan
accusative	mūgan	mūgan
genitive	mūgan	mūgena
dative	mūgan	mūgum

Descendants

• English: mow

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Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-. Compare Old Saxon and Old Dutch mugan, Old English magan, Old High German mugan, Old Norse mega, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (magan).

Verb

muga

1. may

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: mei

  Mooring: mooge

• Saterland Frisian: muuge
• West Frisian: meie

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Basque muga.

Noun

muga f (plural mugas)

1. limit, border
2. milestone

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Veps

Etymology

Akin to Finnish muka.

Adverb

muga

1. so

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Volapük

Noun

muga

1. genitive singular of mug