muda

From Japanese 無駄 (muda).

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.

   Coordinate terms: mura, muri

• Damu, Duma, Maud, duma, maud

muda

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

• IPA^(key): /mu.də/
• Rhymes: -udə
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda (“young (of fruits); immature; light (of colors)”); reconstructed by Robert Blust (compare Tongan mula (“(of yam) lower end while still soft and juicy (as it is while the yam is still immature)”); also compare Amis molaʔ (“immature, unlearned, uneducated, childish, without experience”) from Proto-Austronesian *mudaq).^[1][2]

muda (Balinese script ᬫᬸᬤ)

1. young

Borrowed from Old Javanese mūḍha (“silly, stupid, foolish, unwise, ignorant”), from Sanskrit मूढ (mūḍha).

muda (Balinese script ᬫᬹᬥ)

1. (alus sor) stupid

• “muda” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Compare Tagalog mura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.d̪a]
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

múda (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜇ)

1. swear word; curse word

   Synonym: raway

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda.

• IPA^(key): /muda/
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

muda

1. young (age of a living being)
2. light (shade of colour)

• (antonym(s) of “age”): tua (“old”) (living being)
• (antonym(s) of “colour”): tua (“dark”)

• (age): baru (“new”) (non-living being)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*muda”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmu.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmu.ða]

Deverbal from mudar.

muda f (plural mudes)

1. change, changing
2. change of clothes
3. moult, moulting

   Synonym: pèl-muda

muda

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muda

1. feminine singular of mut

• “muda”, 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

muda

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

• moeda (1901–1947)

Inherited from Malay muda, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.da]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: mu‧da

muda (comparative lebih muda, superlative paling muda or termuda, equative semuda)

1. young

   Synonym: belia

2. light (colour)

   hijau muda

   light green

3. unripe

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*muda”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “muda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.da/
• Rhymes: -uda
• Hyphenation: mù‧da

Deverbal from mudare (“to moult”) +‎ -a.

muda f (plural mude)

1. moult (of a bird)

• mudare
• muta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

muda

1. romanization of ꦩꦸꦢ

• (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

• From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda (“young (of fruits); immature; light (of colors)”); reconstructed by Robert Blust (compare Tongan mula (“(of yam) lower end while still soft and juicy (as it is while the yam is still immature)”); also compare Amis molaʔ (“immature, unlearned, uneducated, childish, without experience”) from Proto-Austronesian *mudaq).^[1][2]

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

• IPA^(key): /muda/
• Rhymes: -uda, -da, -a

muda (Jawi spelling مودا)

1. young

   Antonym: tua

   Orang muda ― Young person

2. light (colour)

   Synonym: terang

   Antonyms: tua, gelap, pekat

   Biru muda ― Light blue

3. unripe

   Antonyms: masak, tua

   Manggis muda ― Unripe mangosteen

• > Indonesian: muda (inherited)

• “muda” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• Hyphenation: mu‧da

From Latin mūtam, accusative feminine form of mūtus.

muda

1. feminine singular of mudo

muda f (plural mudas)

1. female equivalent of mudo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muda, deverbal from mudar.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. seedling
2. (zoology, entomology) ecdysis, moult

   Synonym: ecdise

muda

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

muda

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

muda f sg

1. feminine singular of mudu

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: mu‧da

Deverbal from mudar. Cognate with English moult.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. a change (of clothes, especially underpants)

muda f (plural mudas)

1. female equivalent of mudo (“mute”)

muda

1. feminine singular of mudo

muda

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

• “muda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• mda

From Arabic مُدَّة (mudda).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɗɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

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muda class III (plural miuda class IV)

1. term, period (of time)

From Proto-Finnic *muta.

muda

1. slurry, dredge

Inflection of muda (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	muda
genitive sing.	mudan
partitive sing.	mudad
partitive plur.	mudid
	singular	plural
nominative	muda	mudad
accusative	mudan	mudad
genitive	mudan	mudiden
partitive	mudad	mudid
essive-instructive	mudan	mudin
translative	mudaks	mudikš
inessive	mudas	mudiš
elative	mudaspäi	mudišpäi
illative	mudaha	mudihe
adessive	mudal	mudil
ablative	mudalpäi	mudilpäi
allative	mudale	mudile
abessive	mudata	mudita
comitative	mudanke	mudidenke
prolative	mudadme	mudidme
approximative I	mudanno	mudidenno
approximative II	mudannoks	mudidennoks
egressive	mudannopäi	mudidennopäi
terminative I	mudahasai	mudihesai
terminative II	mudalesai	mudilesai
terminative III	mudassai	—
additive I	mudahapäi	mudihepäi
additive II	mudalepäi	mudilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “взвесь”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika