mullar

mullar (plural mullars)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

• “mullar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• rumall

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin molāris.^[1]

mullar m (plural mullarë, definite mullari, definite plural mullarët)

1. haystack, hayrick
2. heap

• plog
• stivë

Inherited from Old Catalan mullar, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre (“soften by soaking”), a verb derived ultimately from Latin mollis (“soft”). Cognate with French mouiller, Occitan molhar, Spanish mojar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [muˈʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [muˈʎaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

mullar (first-person singular present mullo, first-person singular preterite mullí, past participle mullat)

1. to wet, to make wet
2. to soak, to drench

• xopar

• moll

• “mullar”, 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
• “mullar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mullar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mullar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.