mola

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

mola (plural molas)

1. A sunfish, Mola mola.

Etymology 2

Noun

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.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin mola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• molí

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mōlēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

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

Related terms

• moll

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

mola

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

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

mola

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

Further reading

• “mola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mo‧la

Adjective

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

1. soft

Antonyms

• malmola

Derived terms

• mole (“softly”)

Icelandic

Etymology

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɔːla

Verb

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

1. (transitive, with accusative) to shatter, to smash

Conjugation

Ido

Adjective

mola

1. soft

Antonyms

• harda

Irish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mola

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

Mutation

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

mola

Wikipedia ^it

Una mola (angle grinder)

Una mola (bench grinder) in operazione

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mola f (plural mole)

1. millstone
2. grindstone
3. honing
4. (historical, Rome) 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

Related terms

• molare
• molatrice
• mulino / molino
• macina

See also

• macina

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mola

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

Anagrams

• almo, lamo, malo

Karao

Noun

mola

1. plant

Latgalian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

Noun

mola f (diminutive maleņa)

1. edge

Declension

References

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

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.la/,

Noun

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

   mola salsa (literally “salted flour”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• immolō
• molāris
• molārius
• molīle
• molō
• molūcrum

Related terms

• molitiō
• molitor
• molīnus

Descendants

References

• “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.

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mola f animal

1. Superseded spelling of móla.

Declension

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

Verb

mola

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.la/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: mo‧la

Noun

mola m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of mól

Noun

mola m inan

1. genitive singular of mol

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian molla (“spring”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

Noun

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

References

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

mola f (uncountable)

1. mullah

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mola m

1. genitive singular of mol

Spanish

Verb

mola

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

Sukuma

Adjective

mola

1. good

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

mola (n class, no plural)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mola

Swedish

Verb

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

1. to ache with a dull continuous pain

   Tanden molar

   The tooth is aching

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)!

Conjugation

See also

• svida

References

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

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mola (definite accusative molayı, plural molalar)

1. rest, break, pause

Declension

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔla/

Noun

mola

1. Nasal mutation of bola.

Mutation