mulo

See also: múló

English

Alternative forms

• mullo

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).

Noun

mulo (plural mulos or muli)

1. (in Roma folklore) A vampire.

Usage notes

Both plural forms, mulos and muli, are rare.

Anagrams

• LUMO, omul, umol

Esperanto

Etymology

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Proto-Italic *musklos?

Latin mulusder.

Esperanto mulo

Derived from Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/

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• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: mu‧lo

Noun

mulo (accusative singular mulon, plural muloj, accusative plural mulojn)

1. mule

Coordinate terms

• hino, azenĉevalo

Further reading

• “mulo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mulo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Galician

Verb

mulo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mulir

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: mù‧lo

Noun

mulo m (plural muli, feminine mula)

1. mule

See also

• bardotto

Latin

Noun

mūlō

1. dative/ablative singular of mūlus

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, possibly from Proto-Italic *musklos, possibly borrowed from a substrate language. Doublet of muu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

Noun

mulo m (plural *mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural *mulas)

1. male mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)

   Synonym: muu

Descendants

• Galician: mulo
• Portuguese: mulo

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mulo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mulo, a learned borrowing from Latin mūlus, possibly from Proto-Italic *musklos, possibly borrowed from a substrate language. Doublet of mu.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lu/

• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

Noun

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

1. (rare) male mule

   Synonyms: mula, mu, muar

Usage notes

• Rarely used, since mula applies to both sexes.

Further reading

• “mulo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mulo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romani

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mer-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós

Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥tás

Sanskrit मृ॒त (mṛtá)

Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀅 (mua)

Romani mulo

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀅 (mua, “dead”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮𑁆𑀮- (-lla-), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀫𑀼𑀢 (*muta), from Sanskrit मृ॒त (mṛtá, “dead”).

Adjective

mulo (feminine muli, plural mule)

1. dead, deceased

   O Thagar si mulo! Te trail but o Thagar! ― The King is dead! Long live the King!

Noun

mulo m (plural mule)

1. dead person, the deceased
2. (folklore) ghost

Descendants

• ⇒ Dutch: mollen
• → English: mulo
• → Limburgish: mol, moll

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “mulo”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 593
• Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
• Milena Hübschmannová (May 2002), “Mulo”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[2], Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Venetan, from Latin mūla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mûːlo/
• Hyphenation: mu‧lo

Noun

mȗlo m inan (Cyrillic spelling му̑ло)

1. (regional) bastard (person who was born out of wedlock)

Declension

Declension of mulo

	singular	plural
nominative	mulo	mula
genitive	mula	mula
dative	mulu	mulima
accusative	mulo	mula
vocative	mulo	mula
locative	mulu	mulima
instrumental	mulom	mulima

References

• “mulo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Etymology

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Proto-Italic *musklos?

Latin mūlusder.

Spanish mulo

Derived from Latin mūlus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulo/ [ˈmu.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: mu‧lo

Noun

mulo m (plural mulos, feminine mula, feminine plural mulas)

1. mule

Derived terms

• ciervo mulo

Related terms

• acemilar
• mular

Further reading

• “mulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Yimchungru Naga

Etymology

From Proto-Central Naga *m-lej(ʔ), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej. Cognate to Lotha Naga nli and Chungli Ao temeli.

Noun

mulo

1. tongue

Further reading

• Raguibou, I.D.; Borah, Dinkur (29 July 2022), A Yimkhiung-English-Hindi Trilingual Dictionary‎^[3], Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University, page 33
• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[4], Berkeley: University of California, pages 192-193