mola

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

mola (plural molas)

1. A sunfish, Mola mola.

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.

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

From Latin mola.

mola f (plural moles)

1. millstone
2. grindstone

• molí

From Latin mōlēs.

mola f (plural moles)

1. mass (something large)
2. sunfish

   Synonyms: bot, peix lluna

• moll

• “mola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

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• Hyphenation: mo‧la

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

1. soft

• malmola

• mole (“softly”)

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔːla]
• Rhymes: -ɔːla

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

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

mola

1. soft

• harda

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

mola

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

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

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

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

• molare
• molatrice
• mulino / molino
• macina

• macina

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mola

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

• almo, lamo, malo

mola

1. plant

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔla]
• Hyphenation: mo‧la

mola f (diminutive maleņa)

1. edge

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

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.la/, [ˈmɔɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.la/, [ˈmɔːlä]

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 plural) mill
3. ground meal

First-declension noun.

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

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

• molitiō
• molitor
• molīnus

• “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

mola f

1. Superseded spelling of móla.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmola/

mola

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: mo‧la

mola m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of mól

mola m inan

1. genitive singular of mol

Borrowed from Italian molla (“spring”).

• Hyphenation: mo‧la

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

• mola on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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

mola f (uncountable)

1. mullah

mola m

1. genitive singular of mol

mola

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

mola (n class, no plural)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mola

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)!

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

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

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

mola (definite accusative molayı, plural molalar)

1. rest, break, pause

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔla/

mola

1. Nasal mutation of bola.