# mola
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈməʊ.lə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈmoʊ.lə/
* Rhymes: -əʊlə
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### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mola (plural molas)
* A sunfish, Mola mola.

##### Derived terms

* common mola

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

mola (plural molas)
* 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.
** 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 339:Molas originally served, and still serve, as blouse front and backs.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* AMLO, loma, loam, LMAO, malo, Loma, lmao, MOAL, Malo

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

From Latin mola.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

#### Noun

mola f (plural moles)
* millstone, a circular stone of the two that make up the ordinary mill, one is mobile and is rolled over the other, which is fixed
* grindstone, an instrument consisting of a piece of an abrasive material that is rotated around its axis and is used for sharpening, polishing, deburring, rectifying, profiling, etc. miscellaneous tools or parts
    passar per la mola ― to overcome, to subdue somebody (an idiom, literally to pass it under the grindstone)
* the amount of water needed to move a millstone

##### Derived terms

* esmolar
* molada
* molar
* moler
* molera
* moleta
* moló

##### Related terms

* molí

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mōlēs.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

#### Noun

mola f (plural moles)
* mass (something large or of great volume)
* (geography) an isolated hill of massive form, rounded and flat on top, with very steep upper flanks
* (fishing) a lot of fish that go together
* a rope that has been coiled to form a spiral
* sunfish, a fish of the species Mola mola
    Synonyms: bot, peix lluna

##### Related terms

* moll

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmo.la]

#### Verb

mola
* inflection of molar (“to mock”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.la]

#### Verb

mola
* inflection of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “mola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmola/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mo‧la

### Adjective

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

#### Antonyms

* malmola

#### Derived terms

* mole (“softly”)

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From moli (“fragment, piece”) +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɔːla]
* Rhymes: -ɔːla

### Verb

mola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative molaði, supine molað)
* to shatter, to smash [with accusative]

#### Conjugation
## Ido
### Adjective

mola
* soft

#### Antonyms

* harda

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ˈmˠɔlˠə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈmˠʌlˠə/

### Verb

mola
* inflection of mol:
** present subjunctive analytic
** (obsolete) second-person singular present indicative

### Mutation

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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Hyphenation: mò‧la

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mola f (plural mole)
* millstone
* grindstone
* honing
* (historical, Rome) water mill; especially one of the mills once found adjacent Isola Tiberina
* (colloquial) angle grinder, disc grinder, side grinder (power tool with a perpendicular abrasive disc)
    Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola angolare, smerigliatrice angolare, molatrice angolare
* (colloquial) bench grinder
    Synonyms: smerigliatrice, molatrice, mola da banco, smerigliatrice da banco, molatrice da banco

##### Related terms

* molare
* molatrice
* mulino / molino
* macina

##### See also

* macina

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mola
* inflection of molare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* almo, lamo, malo

## Karao
### Noun

mola
* plant

## Latgalian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɔla]
* Hyphenation: mo‧la

### Noun

mola f (diminutive maleņa)
* edge

#### Declension

$^{1)}$ dialectal

### References

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmo.la/, [ˈmɔɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.la/, [ˈmɔːlä]

### Noun

mola f (genitive molae); first declension
* 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.)
* (especially in the plural) mill
* ground meal
* (transferred sense) (sacred) flour, coarse-ground meal used in sacrifices
    mola salsa (literally “salted flour”)
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.517:Ipsa molā manibusque piīs altāria iuxtā, [...].And [Dido] herself [stands] near the altars, with the holy meal in her pious hands, [...].

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Hyponyms

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

#### Derived terms

* immolō
* molāris
* molārius
* molīle
* molō
* molūcrum

#### Related terms

* molitiō
* molitor
* molīnus

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: moa, mola, mora
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: moarã
** Megleno-Romanian: moară
** Romanian: moară
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: mola
** Neapolitan: mola
** Sicilian: mola
** Venetan: moła
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: muele
** Ladin: mola
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: mola
** French: meule
** Occitan: mòla
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: muela
** Galician: moa
** Mirandese: muola
** Portuguese: mó
** Spanish: muela

### References

* “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.

## Lower Sorbian
### Noun

mola f
* Superseded spelling of móla.

#### Declension
## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈmola/

### Verb

mola
* inflection of mollat:
** present indicative connegative
** second-person singular imperative
** imperative connegative

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: mo‧la

### Noun

mola m animal
* genitive/accusative singular of mól

### Noun

mola m inan
* genitive singular of mol

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian molla (“spring”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.lɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
* Hyphenation: mo‧la

### Noun

mola f (plural molas)
* spring (device made of flexible material)
* (Portugal) clothes peg (object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline)
    Synonyms: (Madeira) grampo, (Brazil) prisão, (Brazil) prendedor, pregador
* (Mozambique, informal) money

### References

* ↑ “mola”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “mola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mola f (uncountable)
* mullah

#### Declension
## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

mola m
* genitive singular of mol

## Spanish
### Verb

mola
* inflection of molar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Sukuma
### Adjective

mola
* good

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mola class IX (no plural)
* Alternative letter-case form of Mola

## Swedish
### Verb

mola (present molar, preterite molade, supine molat, imperative mola)
* to ache with a dull, continuous pain
    Tanden molarThe tooth is aching
* (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)!

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### See also

* sovel
* svida

#### References

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

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmo.ɫa/
* Hyphenation: mo‧la

### Noun

mola (definite accusative molayı, plural molalar)
* rest, break, pause

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
mola
molalar
definite accusative
molayı
molaları
dative
molaya
molalara
locative
molada
molalarda
ablative
moladan
molalardan
genitive
molanın
molaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
molam
molalarım
2nd singular
molan
molaların
3rd singular
molası
molaları
1st plural
molamız
molalarımız
2nd plural
molanız
molalarınız
3rd plural
molaları
molaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
molamı
molalarımı
2nd singular
molanı
molalarını
3rd singular
molasını
molalarını
1st plural
molamızı
molalarımızı
2nd plural
molanızı
molalarınızı
3rd plural
molalarını
molalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
molama
molalarıma
2nd singular
molana
molalarına
3rd singular
molasına
molalarına
1st plural
molamıza
molalarımıza
2nd plural
molanıza
molalarınıza
3rd plural
molalarına
molalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
molamda
molalarımda
2nd singular
molanda
molalarında
3rd singular
molasında
molalarında
1st plural
molamızda
molalarımızda
2nd plural
molanızda
molalarınızda
3rd plural
molalarında
molalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
molamdan
molalarımdan
2nd singular
molandan
molalarından
3rd singular
molasından
molalarından
1st plural
molamızdan
molalarımızdan
2nd plural
molanızdan
molalarınızdan
3rd plural
molalarından
molalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
molamın
molalarımın
2nd singular
molanın
molalarının
3rd singular
molasının
molalarının
1st plural
molamızın
molalarımızın
2nd plural
molanızın
molalarınızın
3rd plural
molalarının
molalarının
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
molayım
molalarım
2nd singular
molasın
molalarsın
3rd singular
mola moladır
molalar molalardır
1st plural
molayız
molalarız
2nd plural
molasınız
molalarsınız
3rd plural
molalar
molalardır :

#### Derived terms

* kahve molası
* mola almak
* mola taşı
* mola vermek
* molalı
* molasız

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔla/

### Noun

mola
* Nasal mutation of bola.

### Mutation

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