# mugir
## Catalan
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin mūgīre. First attested in c. 1400.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [muˈʒi]
* IPA: (Valencia) [muˈd͡ʒiɾ]

### Verb

mugir (first-person singular present mugeixo, first-person singular preterite mugí, past participle mugit)
* to moo; to low
    Synonym: bramular

#### Derived terms

* mugit

### References

* ↑ “mugir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “mugir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mugir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mugir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Alteration of the inherited Old French muir, muire, based on the original etymology, Latin mūgīre

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my.ʒiʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iʁ

### Verb

mugir
* to moo
    Entends mugir les vaches. ― Listen to the cows mooing.
* to roar
** 1792, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (lyrics and music), “La Marseillaise”:Entendez-vous dans les campagnes / Mugir ces féroces soldats ?Do you hear, in the countryside / The roar of those ferocious soldiers?

#### Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

#### Synonyms

* meugler

### Further reading

* “mugir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mogir, mugir, from Latin mūgīre (“to moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg-.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /muˈʒi(ʁ)/ [muˈʒi(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /muˈʒi(ʁ)/ [muˈʒi(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /muˈʒi(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /muˈʒi(ʁ)/ [muˈʒi(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /muˈʒi(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈʒiɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈʒiɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /muˈʒi.ɾi/
* Homophone: mugi (Brazil)
* Hyphenation: mu‧gir

### Verb

mugir (first-person singular present mujo, first-person singular preterite mugi, past participle mugido)
* to moo (to make a lowing sound)

#### Related terms

* mugido

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūgīre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muˈxiɾ/ [muˈxiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: mu‧gir

### Verb

mugir (first-person singular present mujo, first-person singular preterite mugí, past participle mugido)
* (intransitive) to moo

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Related terms

* mugido
* mugiente

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mugir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “mugir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10