mou

Abbreviation of English Mogum.

mou

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mogum.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mogum terms

From Cantonese 冇 (mou5), also influenced by Malay mau variant of mahu (“to want”).

mou

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, mainly Cantonese speakers) Sentence-final particle, forms a tag question.

   Kopitiam mou? ― Do you want to go to the coffee shop?

   Day trip mou? ― Do you want to go on a day trip?

   Hiking tomorrow. Onz mou? ― I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?

• UOM

From Dutch mouw, from Middle Dutch mouwe, from Old Dutch *mouwa, *mōwa, from Frankish *mauwa, from Proto-Germanic *mawwō.

• IPA^(key): /mœu̯/

mou (plural moue)

1. sleeve

• die aap uit die mou laat
• in sy mou lag

mou

1. dark grue (dark green, dark blue)

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Latin modus.

mou m (plural moos)

1. way; manner
2. result

• a mou
• d'otru mou
• de mou que

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɔw]
• Rhymes: -ɔw

mou

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmou̯]

mou

1. accusative/instrumental feminine singular of můj

Related to macou from Proto-Oceanic *mʷasoqu.

mou

1. (Kadavu) any plant from the Cinnamomum genus.
   1. spice of its bark, cinnamon

• macou
• maiu (Namosa)

• Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 191-3
• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “macou”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 150

Inherited from Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollem.

• IPA^(key): /mu/

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• Homophones: moud, mouds, moue, moues, mous, moût, moûts

mou (masculine singular before vowel mol, feminine molle, masculine plural mous, feminine plural molles)

1. soft, pliable, flabby, mushy, squishy
2. (figuratively, of humans, animals, events) lacking vigor or strength; tardy, slow, slack, weak; (of humans) easy to persuade, convince
3. (informal, derogatory) pansy, spineless
4. causing or smacking of tardiness, indolence; debilitating

   Une molle complaisance ― A debilitating complacency

5. (of pillows, matresses, etc.) comfortable, soft

mou m (plural mous)

1. (nominalized, poetic) pliability, softness, mushiness
2. (butchering) lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal) sold as lesser quality meat for cats or other pets
3. (chiefly partitively and climbing, of a rope) slack

   Coordinate term: sec

   donne moi du mou ! ― pay me out some slack!

   l'escaladeur n'avait pas assez de mou pour le dévers ― the mountain climber didn't have enough slack for the overhang

   sec ? - non, du mou ! ― do I take up the slack? - no, pay me some more!

4. something soft, pliable or mushy
5. a man lacking impetuousness and decision; a pansy, softy

   Synonyms: faible, hommelet

   Antonym: dur

6. (politics) a moderate

• “mou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Derived from French caramel mou (“soft caramel”).^[1] Attested since 1942.^[2] Doublet of molle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu/^*, /ˈmu/^°
• Rhymes: -u

mou m or f

1. toffee (soft candy made from milk and caramelized sugar)

mou (invariable)

1. made of toffee

• caramella mou
• salsa mou (“caramel sauce”)

mou

1. nonstandard spelling of mōu
2. nonstandard spelling of móu
3. nonstandard spelling of mǒu
4. nonstandard spelling of mòu

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Elision of motu.

mou

1. island, islet, alternative form of motu

mou

1. alternative form of mowe (“haystack”)

• mó, moa, móo

Remodelled from the superlative moam on the analogy with regular adjectives.

• IPA^(key): /mo.u/

mou

1. comparative degree of mór

• Kim McCone (1994) “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →ISBN, §20.3, page 125:

  Síolraíonn SG brc. mó ‘níos mó’ (gnáthfhoirm Wb.) go díreach ó *máu (11.3-4) < *māūh < *mā(y)ūs (> Briot. *mōīh > MB mwy) […]. D’imoibrigh bun-, breis agus sár-chéim ar a chéile i ré na Sean-Ghaeilge: m.sh., […] brc. móa (Wb.) faoi thionchar leithéide oa ‘níos óige’ thuas, agus brc. mou (gnáthfhoirm Ml.) ar bhonn src. moam de réir an ghaoil idir brc. córu ‘níos córa’, src. córam ‘is córa’ (cf. 3.7) agus mar sin de san aicme rialta.

• IPA^(key): /mɔw/

mou

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover

Cognate with West Makian mou (“mute”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

mou

1. (stative) to be mute

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognate with Ternate mou (“mute”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.u/

mou

1. (stative) to be mute

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (as mow)

• مۉ

Elision of lemou related to Malay lembu

mou

1. cow

From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴬ (“pig”). Cognate with Thai หมู (mǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, Lao ໝູ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), Tai Dam ꪢꪴ, Tai Nüa ᥛᥧᥴ (mú), Shan မူ (mǔu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Bouyei mul, Nong Zhuang mu, Saek หมู่.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /mou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: mou¹
• Hyphenation: mou

mou (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 𭸘 or 𭸙 or 𤝖 or 某 or 𭸲, 1957–1982 spelling mou)

1. pig