mukula
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.
Noun
mukula (uncountable)
- (Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix
Further reading
- Shi Yi (2017 January 20) “Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem”, in Earth Journalism Network[1], archived from the original on 21 August 2019
- Xue Weng, Paolo Cerutti, Penias Banda and Davison Gumbo (2017 April 19) “Saving trees or improving lives? Tackling illegal logging in Zambia's forests”, in International Institute for Environment and Development[2]
- Paolo Omar Cerutti, Davison Gumbo, Kaala Moombe, George Schoneveld, Robert Nasi, Nils Bourland and Xiaoxue Weng (2018) Informality, global capital, rural development and the environment: Mukula (rosewood) trade between China and Zambia[3], International Institute for Environment and Development
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
mukula
- (botany) tuber (fleshy underground stem)
- any small, hard lump that might be compared to a tuber, especially potato
- mukulakivi = cobblestone
- (colloquial) kid (little child)
Declension
Inflection of mukula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mukula | mukulat | |
genitive | mukulan | mukuloiden mukuloitten | |
partitive | mukulaa | mukuloita | |
illative | mukulaan | mukuloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mukula | mukulat | |
accusative | nom. | mukula | mukulat |
gen. | mukulan | ||
genitive | mukulan | mukuloiden mukuloitten mukulain rare | |
partitive | mukulaa | mukuloita | |
inessive | mukulassa | mukuloissa | |
elative | mukulasta | mukuloista | |
illative | mukulaan | mukuloihin | |
adessive | mukulalla | mukuloilla | |
ablative | mukulalta | mukuloilta | |
allative | mukulalle | mukuloille | |
essive | mukulana | mukuloina | |
translative | mukulaksi | mukuloiksi | |
abessive | mukulatta | mukuloitta | |
instructive | — | mukuloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- English terms borrowed from Bantu languages
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Dalbergieae tribe plants
- en:Woods
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Botany
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals