muda

Japanese 無駄

muda (uncountable)

1. (business) A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work is performed that does not add value for the customer.

• mura
• muri

• Duma, Maud, duma, maud

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muda

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

From Malay muda (“young”), from Pali muddha (“foolish, bewildered”), from Sanskrit मुग्ध (mugdha, “foolish, bewildered, young”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.da/

muda

1. young
2. light (colour)

• “muda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.da/, [ˈmuːd̪ä]
• Stress: mùda
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

Back-formation from mudare (“to moult”).

muda f (plural mude)

1. moult (of a bird)

• mudare
• muta

See the etymology of the main entry.

muda

1. inflection of mudare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muda

1. Rōmaji transcription of むだ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ムダ

• (Northern) muta

From Proto-Finnic *muta, from Proto-Uralic *muďa.

muda

1. (Southern) mud

muda

1. inflection of muder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ðɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.dɐ/
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

From Latin mūtam, accusative feminine form of mūtus.

muda

1. Feminine singular of adjective mudo.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. female equivalent of mudo

Backformation from the verb mudar

muda f (plural mudas)

1. seedling

muda

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mudar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mudar

muda

1. inflection of múdo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative plural

muda f sg

1. feminine singular of mudu

Cognate with English moult.

muda

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

muda

1. Feminine singular of adjective mudo.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. A change (of clothes, especially underpants)

• mda

From Arabic مُدَّة‎ (mudda).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɗɑ/

muda (m-mi class, plural miuda)

1. term, period (of time)

Related to Finnish muta.

muda

1. slurry, dredge

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “взвесь”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika