mozzarella

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See also: Mozzarella and mozzarellą

English

Mozzarella cheese
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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (to cut off), from Latin mutilare.
The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɒt.səˈɹɛl.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/, less commonly IPA(key): /mʌt.səˈɹɛl.ə/, /mut.səˈɹɛl.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)

  1. Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
  2. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
    • 2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:
      Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad
    • 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)‎:
      Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller
    • 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)‎:
      Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella
    • 2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire:
      I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank

Derived terms

Translations

Czech

Noun

mozzarella f

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

Italian mozzarella

Pronunciation

Noun

mozzarella

  1. mozzarella (type of cheese)

Declension

Inflection of mozzarella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative mozzarella mozzarellat
genitive mozzarellan mozzarellojen
partitive mozzarellaa mozzarelloja
illative mozzarellaan mozzarelloihin
singular plural
nominative mozzarella mozzarellat
accusative nom. mozzarella mozzarellat
gen. mozzarellan
genitive mozzarellan mozzarellojen
mozzarellain rare
partitive mozzarellaa mozzarelloja
inessive mozzarellassa mozzarelloissa
elative mozzarellasta mozzarelloista
illative mozzarellaan mozzarelloihin
adessive mozzarellalla mozzarelloilla
ablative mozzarellalta mozzarelloilta
allative mozzarellalle mozzarelloille
essive mozzarellana mozzarelloina
translative mozzarellaksi mozzarelloiksi
abessive mozzarellatta mozzarelloitta
instructive mozzarelloin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of mozzarella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

Derived terms

compounds

Italian

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Etymology

Diminutive of mozza (a type of cheese), related to the verb mozzare. Originally of southern Italian origin; cf. Neapolitan muzzarella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mot.t͡saˈrɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: moz‧za‧rèl‧la

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarelle)

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

See also

Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ.t͡saˈrɛl.la/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Syllabification: mo‧zza‧rel‧la

Noun

mozzarella f

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Declension

Further reading

  • mozzarella in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mozzarella in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)

  1. Alternative form of mussarela

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.

Noun

mozzarella f (uncountable)

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.

Noun

mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
    Synonym: (Argentina) muzzarela

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

Swedish

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mozzarella

Pronunciation

Noun

mozzarella c

  1. mozzarella
    Synonym: mozzarellaost

Declension

References