mukula

• Mukula, mukwa, Mukwa

Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.

mukula (uncountable)

1. (Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix

• Shi Yi (2017 January 20) “Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem”, in Earth Journalism Network‎, archived from the original on 21 August 2019
• Xue Weng, Paolo Cerutti, Penias Banda and Davison Gumbo (2017 April 19) “Saving trees or improving lives? Tackling illegal logging in Zambia's forests”, in International Institute for Environment and Development‎
• Paolo Omar Cerutti, Davison Gumbo, Kaala Moombe, George Schoneveld, Robert Nasi, Nils Bourland and Xiaoxue Weng (2018) Informality, global capital, rural development and the environment: Mukula (rosewood) trade between China and Zambia‎, International Institute for Environment and Development

• Maluku

mukku +‎ -la, from a back-vowel variant of mykky (possibly by influence from muhku-)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmukulɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ukulɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧ku‧la

mukula

1. (botany) tuber (fleshy underground stem)
2. (modifier) tuberous, and other translations (of, relating to, resembling, or producing tubers)

   mukulajuures ― tuberous root vegetable

   mukulakivi ― cobblestone

3. (horticulture) tuber (thickened rootstock)
4. lump (mound or mass of no particular shape)
5. (colloquial) kid (little child)

• (lump): murikka, möykky, paakku

• (botany): varastoelin

• “mukula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• kuluma