mola

See also: Mola, móla, molá, mõla, and moła

English

Kuna woman selling molas in Panama City.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈməʊ.lə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmoʊ.lə/

Noun

mola (plural molas)

  1. A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, consisting of cloth panels to be worn on clothing, featuring complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse appliqué technique.
    • 1977, Rhoda L. Auld, Molas: What they are, How to make them, Ideas they suggest for creative appliqué‎, page 67
      The classic mola is pure applique and is distinguished by alternating bands of color.
  2. A sunfish, Mola mola.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmola/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧la

Adjective

mola (accusative singular molan, plural molaj, accusative plural molajn)

  1. soft

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Icelandic

Etymology

From moli (fragment, piece) + -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɔːla]
  • Rhymes: -ɔːla

Verb

mola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative molaði, supine molað)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to shatter, to smash

Conjugation


Ido

Adjective

mola

  1. soft

Antonyms


Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of mol:
    1. present subjunctive analytic
    2. (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

Mutation

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (to grind, crush).

Noun

mola f (plural mole)

  1. millstone
  2. grindstone
  3. honing
  4. (historical, Rome) water mill; especially one of the mills once found adjacent Isola Tiberina.

See also

Verb

mola

  1. third-person singular present indicative of molare
  2. second-person singular imperative of molare

See also

Anagrams


Latgalian

Noun

mola f

  1. edge

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (to grind, crush), from *mel-. Cognate with Latin mollis, Ancient Greek μύλη (múlē), English meal. See also English maelstrom.

Pronunciation

Noun

mola f (genitive molae); first declension

  1. millstone
  2. (especially plural) mill
  3. ground meal

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mola molae
Genitive molae molārum
Dative molae molīs
Accusative molam molās
Ablative molā molīs
Vocative mola molae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • mola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mola f

  1. Superseded spelling of móla.

Declension


Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmola/

Verb

mola

  1. inflection of mollat:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.la/

Noun

mola m anim

  1. inflection of mól:
    1. genitive singular
    2. accusative singular

Noun

mola m inan

  1. genitive singular of mol

Portuguese

mola

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian molla (spring).

Pronunciation

Noun

mola f (plural molas)

  1. spring (device made of flexible material)
  2. (Portugal) clothes peg (object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline)
    Synonyms: grampo de roupa, grampo

Further reading


Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mola m

  1. genitive singular of mol

Spanish

Verb

mola

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of molar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of molar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of molar.
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