mújol
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See also: mujol
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mújol m (plural mújols)
Descendants
- → Spanish: mújol
Further reading
- “mújol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan mújol, from Latin mugil. Doublet of múgil.
Pronunciation
Noun
mújol m (plural mújoles)
- mullet (fish), especially the grey mullet (Mugil cephalus)
- 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, La Primera República:
- Con este vivir fácil y mis calderetas de mújol fresco al medio día, mis fritangas de barbos y bogas por las noches, con algún hojaldre de añadidura, me reconstituí en mi ser normal apartando mis ojos de la cara fea de la muerte.
- With this easy living and my fresh mullet stews for lunch, fried barbel and characin for dinner, with one or another pastry thrown in, I got back to my good old self up and took my eyes away from the ugly face of death.
- 2003, Manuel Julivert, El Sáhara: Tierras, pueblos y culturas:
- Durante esta época tienen lugar en el Banco de Arguin las grandes pescas de mújoles. Los mejores lugares para ello son los alrededores de las grandes islas (Tidra, Kiji) y las proximidades de la costa, muy especialmente la costa al sur del Cabo Timrist.
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Further reading
- “mújol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014