mou
See also: Mou, MOU, MoU, móu, mòu, mōu, mǒu, and mᵒū
English
Etymology
From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).
Particle
mou
- (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Sentence-final particle, forms a tag question.
- Kopitiammou? ― Do you want to go to the coffee shop?
- Day trip mou? ― Do you want to go on a day trip?
- Hiking tomorrow. Onzmou? ― I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch mouw, from Middle Dutch mouwe, from Old Dutch *mouwa, *mōwa, from Frankish *mauwa, from Proto-Germanic *mawwō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mœu̯/
Noun
mou (plural moue)
- sleeve
Derived terms
- die aap uit die mou laat
- in sy mou lag
Aiwoo
Adjective
mou
- dark grue (dark green, dark blue)
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin modus.
Noun
mou m (plural moos)
- way; manner
- result
Derived terms
- a mou
- d'otru mou
- de mou que
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmɔw/
- Rhymes: -ɔw
Verb
mou
- third-person singular present indicative form of moure
- second-person singular imperative form of moure
French
Etymology
From Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollis, mollem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu/
audio (file) - Homophones: moud, mouds, moue, moues, mous, moût, moûts
Adjective
mou (masculine singular before vowel mol, feminine molle, masculine plural mous, feminine plural molles)
- soft, pliable
- (informal) pansy, spineless
Derived terms
- couille molle
- coup de mou
- donner du mou
- mou du genou
- ne pas promettre poires molles
- palais mou
- science molle
- signe mou
- ventre mou
Noun
mou m (plural mous)
- lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal)
Further reading
- “mou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Mandarin
Romanization
mou
- Nonstandard spelling of mōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of móu.
- Nonstandard spelling of mǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of mòu.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- mó, moä, móo
Etymology
Remodelled from the superlative moäm on the analogy with regular adjectives.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.u/
Adjective
moü
- comparative degree of mór
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| moü also mmoü after a proclitic | moü pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Kim McCone (1994), “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in Kim McCone, Damian McManus, Cathal Ó Háinle, Nicholas Williams, Liam Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, Maigh Nuad, →ISBN, §20.3, page 125:
- Síolraíonn SG brc. mó ‘níos mó’ (gnáthfhoirm Wb.) go díreach ó *máu (11.3-4) < *māūh < *mā(y)ūs (> Briot. *mōīh > MB mwy) […]. D’imoibrigh bun-, breis agus sár-chéim ar a chéile i ré na Sean-Ghaeilge: m.sh., […] brc. móa (Wb.) faoi thionchar leithéide oa ‘níos óige’ thuas, agus brc. mou (gnáthfhoirm Ml.) ar bhonn src. moam de réir an ghaoil idir brc. córu ‘níos córa’, src. córam ‘is córa’ (cf. 3.7) agus mar sin de san aicme rialta.
Old Occitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔw/
Verb
mou
- third-person singular present indicative of mover
Ternate
Etymology
Cognate with West Makian mou (“mute”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmo.u/
Verb
mou
- (stative) to be mute
Conjugation
| Conjugation of mou | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Inclusive | Exclusive | |||
| 1st | tomou | fomou | mimou | |
| 2nd | nomou | nimou | ||
| 3rd | Masculine | omou | imou, yomou† | |
| Feminine | momou | |||
| Neuter | imou | |||
| † - archaic | ||||
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Makian
Etymology
Cognate with Ternate mou (“mute”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmo.u/
Verb
mou
- (stative) to be mute
Conjugation
| Conjugation of mou (stative verb) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | timou | mimou | amou | |
| 2nd person | nimou | fimou | ||
| 3rd person | inanimate | imou | dimou | |
| animate | mamou | |||
| imperative | —, mou | —, mou | ||
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics (as mow)
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴬ (“pig”). Cognate with Thai หมู (mǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, Lao ໝູ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), Tai Dam ꪢꪴ, Tai Nüa ᥛᥧᥴ (mú), Shan မူ (mǔu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Bouyei mul, Nong Zhuang mu, Saek หมู่.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /mou˨˦/
- Tone numbers: mou1
- Hyphenation: mou
Noun
mou (classifier duz, Sawndip forms 𭸘 or 𭸙 or 𤝖 or 某 or 𭸲, 1957–1982 spelling mou)
- pig
Derived terms
- moubing
- moucauz
- mouduenh
- mougangq
- mougo
- mougvaqcauz
- mougyauh
- mouhaeuxsan
- moulangz
- moumehrangx
- moumixsan
- mounoh
- mouraq
- mouraih
- mouraemx
- mouseng
- mousij
- muimou
- roengqmou
- songzmou
- sugmou