# mou
## English
### Etymology

From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).

### Particle

mou
* (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, mainly Cantonese speakers) Sentence-final particle, forms a tag question.
    Kopitiam mou? ― Do you want to go to the coffee shop?
    Day trip mou? ― Do you want to go on a day trip?
    Hiking tomorrow. Onz mou? ― I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?

### Anagrams

* UOM

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch mouw, from Middle Dutch mouwe, from Old Dutch *mouwa, *mōwa, from Frankish *mauwa, from Proto-Germanic *mawwō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mœu̯/

### Noun

mou (plural moue)
* sleeve

#### Derived terms

* die aap uit die mou laat
* in sy mou lag

## Äiwoo
### 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, number 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

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɔw]
* Rhymes: -ɔw

### Verb

mou
* inflection of moure:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmou̯]

### Pronoun

mou
* accusative/instrumental feminine singular of můj

## Fijian
### Etymology

Related to macou from Proto-Oceanic *mʷasoqu.

### Noun

mou
* (Kadavu) any plant from the Cinnamomum genus.
** spice of its bark, cinnamon

#### Synonyms

* macou
* maiu (Namosa)

### References

* Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 191-3
* Gatty, Ronald (2009) “macou”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 150

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French mol, inherited from Latin mollem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.

## Italian
### Etymology

Derived from French caramel mou (“soft caramel”). Attested since 1942. Doublet of molle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu/$^*$, /ˈmu/$^°$
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

mou m or f
* toffee (soft candy made from milk and caramelized sugar)

### Adjective

mou (invariable)
* made of toffee

#### Derived terms

* caramella mou
* salsa mou (“caramel sauce”)

#### References

* ↑ https://www.garzantilinguistica.it/ricerca/
* ↑ https://dizionario.internazionale.it/parola/mou

## Mandarin
### Romanization

mou
* Nonstandard spelling of mōu.
* Nonstandard spelling of móu.
* Nonstandard spelling of mǒu.
* Nonstandard spelling of mòu.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* mó, moä, móo

### Etymology

Remodelled from the superlative moäm on the analogy with regular adjectives.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mo.u/

### Adjective

moü
* comparative degree of mór

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Kim McCone (1994) “An tSean-Ghaeilge agus a Réamhstair”, in K. McCone, D. McManus, C. Ó Háinle, N. Williams, L. Breatnach, editors, Stair na Gaeilge: in ómós do P[h]ádraig Ó Fiannachta (in Irish), Maynooth: Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Coláiste Phádraig, →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: /mɔw/

### Verb

mou
* third-person singular present indicative of mover

## Ternate
### Etymology

Cognate with West Makian mou (“mute”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmo.u/

### Verb

mou
* (stative) to be mute

#### Conjugation
### 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: /ˈmo.u/

### Verb

mou
* (stative) to be mute

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics (as mow)

## Western Cham
### Alternative forms

* مۉ

### Etymology

Elision of lemou related to Malay lembu

### Noun

mou
* cow

## 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: /mou˨˦/
* Tone numbers: mou$^1$
* 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