mola

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.lə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.lə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

mola (plural molas)

1. A sunfish, Mola mola.

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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.

   • 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 339:

     Molas originally served, and still serve, as blouse front and backs.

• AMLO, loma, loam, LMAO, malo, Loma, lmao, MOAL, Malo

mola

1. first-person singular aorist indicative of mjel

From Latin mola.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

mola f (plural moles)

1. millstone, a circular stone of the two that make up the ordinary mill, one is mobile and is rolled over the other, which is fixed
2. grindstone, an instrument consisting of a piece of an abrasive material that is rotated around its axis and is used for sharpening, polishing, deburring, rectifying, profiling, etc. miscellaneous tools or parts

   passar per la mola ― to overcome, to subdue somebody (an idiom, literally to pass it under the grindstone)

3. the amount of water needed to move a millstone

• molí

Borrowed from Latin mōlēs.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

mola f (plural moles)

1. mass (something large or of great volume)
2. (geography) an isolated hill of massive form, rounded and flat on top, with very steep upper flanks
3. (fishing) a lot of fish that go together
4. a rope that has been coiled to form a spiral
5. sunfish, a fish of the species Mola mola

   Synonyms: bot, peix lluna

• moll

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.la]

mola

1. inflection of molar (“to mock”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

mola

1. inflection of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mola”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From mol (“clot”) +‎ -a.

mola

1. to clot

   Synonym: kowla

From French molle and Italian molle, both from Latin mollis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧la

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

1. soft

• malmola

• mole (“softly”)

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔːla]
• Rhymes: -ɔːla

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

1. to shatter, to smash [with accusative]

mola

1. soft

• harda

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠɔlˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʌlˠə/

mola

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: mò‧la

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

mola f (plural mole)

1. millstone
2. grindstone
3. honing
4. (historical, Romanesco) water mill; especially one of the mills once found adjacent Isola Tiberina
5. (colloquial) angle grinder, disc grinder, side grinder (power tool with a perpendicular abrasive disc)

   Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola angolare, smerigliatrice angolare, molatrice angolare

6. (colloquial) bench grinder

   Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola da banco, smerigliatrice da banco, molatrice da banco

• molare
• molatrice
• mulino / molino
• macina

• macina

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mola

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

• almo, lamo, malo

• IPA^(key): /ˈmola/ [ˈmoː.lʌ]
  • Rhymes: -ola
• (Sagada, parts of Sabangan) IPA^(key): /ˈmora/ [ˈmoː.rʌ]
  • Rhymes: -ora
• Syllabification: mo‧la

móla

1. things planted

• Allen, Larry (2021) “móla”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Wallace, Judy (2018) “mola”, in Northern Kankanay – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics

mola

1. plant

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰo-. Cognates include Latvian mala.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔla]
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

mola f (diminutive maleņa)

1. edge

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.la]

mola f (genitive molae); first declension

1. millstone
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.317–318:

     inde focum observat pistor dominamque focōrum,
     et quae pūmiceās versat asella molās.

     Thereupon the baker reverences the hearth and the mistress of the hearth, and the she-donkey that turns the pumice millstones.
     (See Vestalia.)

2. (especially in the plural) mill
3. ground meal
4. (transferred sense) (sacred) flour, coarse-ground meal used in sacrifices

   mola salsa (literally “salted flour”)

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.517:

     Ipsa molā manibusque piīs altāria iuxtā, [...].

     And [Dido] herself [stands] near the altars, with the holy meal in her pious hands, [...].

First-declension noun.

• mola aquāria (“water mill”)
• mola asināria (“Roman stone hand mill, worked by a donkey or mule”)

• molitiō
• molitor
• molīnus

• “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.

mola f

1. superseded spelling of móla

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

mola

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: mo‧la

mola m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of mól

mola m inan

1. genitive singular of mol

Borrowed from Italian molla (“spring”).^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

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: (Madeira) grampo, (Brazil) prisão, (Brazil) prendedor, pregador

3. (Mozambique, informal) money

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملا (molla), from Persian ملا (mollâ), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).

mola f (uncountable)

1. mullah

mola m

1. genitive singular of mol

mola

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

mola

1. good

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mola class IX (no plural)

1. alternative letter-case form of Mola

mola (present molar, preterite molade, supine molat, imperative mola)

1. to ache with a dull, continuous pain

   Tanden molar

   The tooth is aching

   en dov, molande smärta

   a dull, aching pain

2. (regional, Hälsingland region) to eat a thing by itself that would normally be eaten with something else

   Sluta mola ost!

   Stop eating just cheese (and make a sandwich if you are going to eat cheese)!

• sovel
• svida

• mola in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mola in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mola in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket

From Ottoman Turkish موله (mola), from Venetan moła, 2nd person imperative of Venetan mołar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ɫa/
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

mola (definite accusative molayı, plural molalar)

1. rest, break, pause

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔla/

mola

1. nasal mutation of bola