# moll
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɒl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒl
* Homophones: mall, maul (some accents)
* Homophone: mole (some accents)

### Etymology 1

From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).

#### Alternative forms

* mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

#### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

#### Noun

moll (plural molls)
* A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
** 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
** 2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.
* A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a bikie.
** 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209:The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
** 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 76:‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.
** 2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, page 142:Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
* (slang) A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

##### Usage notes

(girlfriend of a surfie or bikie): Because Australian pronunciation merges the /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ phonemes before /l/ (both become [oʊl]), this word is very commonly spelt mole in Australia, probably by contamination with mole (“sneaky person”). Indeed, the Australian Oxford dictionary does not list the Australian meaning of the term under the headword moll, but only under mole, although it does recognise that mole in this sense is “probably” a mere “variant of moll”.

##### Synonyms

* (surfie's girlfriend): chick

##### Derived terms

* moll buzzer
* wapping moll

### Etymology 2

From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”).
Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll.

#### Adjective

moll (not comparable)
* (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor key.
    Bach's Gavotte in B Moll

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “moll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* LOML

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɔʎ]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan moyll, from Latin mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from *(s)meld- (“soft, weak, tender”). Compare Occitan mòl, French mou, Spanish muelle.

#### Adjective

moll (feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)
* moist, wet
* weak

##### Derived terms

* aiguamoll
* bocamoll
* mollera
* remollir

##### Related terms

* mullar

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan moyl, from Vulgar Latin *medullum, analogically derived from Latin medulla, and probably influenced by Etymology 1. Compare Occitan mesolh, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo. Doublet of molla and medul·la, which were, respectively, inherited and borrowed from Latin.

#### Noun

moll m (uncountable)
* marrow, as in bone marrow
* the soft part of a fruit

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin mullus (“red mullet”).

#### Noun

moll m (plural molls)
* several species of fish
    moll de fang — Mullus barbatus
    moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus
    moll reial — Apogon imberbis

### Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin moles.

#### Noun

moll m (plural molls)
* quay, jetty
* breakwater

##### Descendants

* → Portuguese: molhe
* → Spanish: muelle

### Further reading

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

### References

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmol]
* Hyphenation: moll

### Noun

moll n (indeclinable)
* (music) minor

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmolː]
* Hyphenation: moll
* Rhymes: -olː

### Adjective

moll (not comparable)
* (music) minor
    moll akkord ― minor chord

#### Declension
### Noun

moll (plural mollok)
* (music) minor (scale or key)
    a-moll ― A minor

#### Derived terms

* a-moll
* c-moll
* d-moll
* e-moll
* f-moll
* g-moll
* h-moll

### References

* ↑ moll in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### Further reading

* moll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔlː/
    Rhymes: -ɔlː

### Noun

moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)
* (music) minor (scale or key)

#### Derived terms

* a-moll
* c-moll
* cís-moll
* d-moll
* e-moll
* f-moll
* fís-moll
* g-moll
* h-moll

#### See also

* dúr

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

### Pronunciation

* (Ulster) IPA: /mˠʌl̪ˠ/
* Homophone: mol (some accents)

### Noun

moll m (genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)
* heap; large amount, large number

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
moll
mollta
vocative
a mhoill
a mhollta
genitive
moill
mollta
dative
moll
mollta
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an moll
na mollta
genitive
an mhoill
na mollta
dative
leis an moll don mholl
leis na mollta :
* Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha

#### Derived terms

* moll bréag (“pack of lies”)

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “moll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “moil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 78

## Manx
### Etymology 1

From Middle Irish mellaid (“to deceive, beguile, seduce”), a denominative verb from Old Irish meld (“pleasant, delightful”). Cognate with Irish meall and Scottish Gaelic meall.

#### Verb

moll (past voll, future independent mollee, verbal noun molley, past participle mollit)
* fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
    Mollee y molteyr oo my oddys eh. ― The deceiver will deceive you if he can.
* disappoint
    V'eh mollit nagh daink ee. ― He was disappointed that she did not come.
* impose
* be mistaken
    Ayns shen t'ou mollit. ― That is where you are mistaken.

##### Derived terms

* molteyr (“deceiver, charlatan, duper, fraud, cheat, con man, impostor”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

#### Noun

moll m (genitive singular moll)
* mass, pile, heap, pack
* cluster, gathering, collection, huddle
* nave

### Mutation
## Middle English
### Noun

moll
* Alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔl
* Hyphenation: moll
* Homophone: mold

### Etymology 1

From German Moll (“minor”), from Medieval Latin molle, of Latin mollis (“soft”), from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Italic *moldus, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“soft, weak, tender”).
Cognate with English moll, Icelandic moll, Czech moll, Hungarian moll and Swedish moll.

#### Noun

moll m (definite singular mollen, indefinite plural moller, definite plural mollene)
* (music) a minor scale (having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth)
    Antonym: dur
    ren moll ― Aeolian mode
** 1907, Alexander Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 6:han vidste, at Hans blot kunde tre akkompagnementer; et i moll og to i durhe knew that Hans could only do three accompaniments; one in minor and two in major
** 2012, Eivind Buene, Allsang:musikken skifter fra moll til dur, og trombonene kommer inn over de lange, blanke strykeakkordenethe music changes from minor to major, and the trombones come in over the long, shiny string chords
* (figuratively) a minor (timbre, that in classical and romantic music, can evoke or express melancholy)
    Antonym: dur
** 1852, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter I, page 349:[løven] i moll maa klynke, som brølte før i dur[the lion] in minor must whine, which roared before in major
** 1926, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Samlede Digte I, page 169:gaa til moll fra durgo to minor from major
** 1949, Johan Borgen, Jenny og påfuglen, page 108:kollisjoner mellom duren fra de inntrengende og stuens mollcollisions between the drone from the intruders and the living room minor

### Etymology 2

From English mull, from Hindi.

#### Noun

moll m or n (definite singular mollen or mollet, indefinite plural moller or moll, definite plural mollene or molla)
* (textiles) mull (a thin, soft muslin)
    Coordinate term: linon

### References

* “moll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “moll_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “moll_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “moll” in Store norske leksikon
* “moll (tekstil)” in Store norske leksikon

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From German Moll, from Latin mollis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔlː/

### Noun

moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)
* (music) minor (scale or key)

#### Antonyms

* dur

### References

* “moll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /mɔl/, [mɔlː]

### Noun

moll (indeclinable)
* (music) minor scale

#### Derived terms

* a-moll

### References

* moll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔɬ/

### Adjective

moll f
* feminine singular of mwll

### Mutation

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