# mos
## Translingual
### Symbol

mos
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mooré.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Moore terms

## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mos (plural mores)
* (rare) singular of mores (“moral norms or customs”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mos
* plural of mo (“month; molester”)

### Anagrams

* OMS, OMs, SMO, SOM, Som., oms, osm, som, som'

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mos/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

#### Noun

mos (plural mosse)
* moss

### Etymology 2

From Dutch most, from Latin mustum.

#### Noun

mos (uncountable)
* must (unfermented or partially fermented grape juice)

### Etymology 3
#### Adverb

mos
* as you already know (see usage notes)

##### Usage notes

When used as an adverb, mos is used when what is being said is already known (or was known, but perhaps now forgotten) by the listener. For example, if Person A asks Person B, "gaan jy vandag inkopies doen?" (are you going to go shopping today?) and Person B replies, "ja, ek doen mos elke Maandag inkopies" (yes, I go shopping every Monday), then this implies that Person A should already know (or did know at some point, and perhaps forgot) that Person B goes shopping every Monday. If the fact that Person B goes shopping on Mondays was new to Person A, then Person B would reply without using "mos". It is thus also used when making a statement that, while possibly obvious to the listener, is intended to provide context for a following statement.

## Albanian
### Etymology

Union of particles mo (“un-”) and së (“un-”).

### Adverb

mos
* don't

#### Derived terms

* mosbesim
* mosgjë
* moskund
* moskuptim
* moskurrë
* moskush
* mosmirënjohës
* mosnjeri

#### Related terms

* mo

### References

* ↑ Topalli, K. (2017) “mos”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1008

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin nos, with the initial consonant influenced by the first-person singular object pronoun me (“me”).

### Pronoun

mos
* Benasquese and Low Ribagorçan form of nos (“us”, first-person plural dative and accusative pronoun)

### References

* “nos”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

## Asturian
### Pronoun

mos
* Alternative form of nos

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Clipping of bamos.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmos/ [ˈmos]

### Verb

mós (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔)
* (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to go
    Synonym: madya
    Mos! (Mos na kita!)Let's go now!

#### Related terms

* mos na

## Bouyei
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmɤːlᴮ (“new”). Cognate with Thai ใหม่ (mài), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵, Lao ໃໝ່ (mai), Lü ᦺᦖᧈ (ṁay¹), Tai Dam ꪻꪢ꪿, Shan မႂ်ႇ (màue), Tai Nüa ᥛᥬᥱ (mǎue), Ahom 𑜉𑜧 (maw) or 𑜉𑜨𑜧 (mow), Zhuang moq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mo˧˥/

### Adjective

mos
* new

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin morsus (“a bite”), from mordeō (“bite”).

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

mos m (plural mossos)
* bite, mouthful
    Synonyms: mossegada, mossada
* bit (metal placed in a horse's mouth)
    Synonym: fre

##### Derived terms

* mossa
* mossada
* mosset

##### Related terms

* mossegar

### Etymology 2

From nos, assimilated to the -m ending in reflexive constructions.

#### Pronunciation

* (Balearic, Central) IPA: /mus/ (always unstressed)
* (Valencia) IPA: /mos/ (always unstressed)

#### Pronoun

mos (enclitic, contracted 'ns, proclitic ens)
* (dialectal, direct or indirect object) us
    Synonym: nos (standard)

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mōs, reduced form of Latin meōs.

#### Pronunciation

* (Balearic, Central) IPA: /mus/ (always unstressed)
* (Valencia) IPA: /mos/ (always unstressed)

#### Determiner

mos
* masculine plural of mon

##### Alternative forms

* mons (dialectal)

### Further reading

* “mos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse *mós, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“mush, porridge”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːs/, [moːˀs]

#### Noun

mos c (singular definite mosen, not used in plural form)
* mash, puree

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse mosi, mose, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔs/, [mɔs]

#### Noun

mos n (singular definite mosset, plural indefinite mosser)
* moss

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːs/, [moːˀs]

#### Verb

mos
* imperative of mose

### See also

* mose

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch mos, from Old Dutch *mos, from Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mos
* Rhymes: -ɔs

### Noun

mos n (plural mossen, diminutive mosje n)
* moss (small seedless plant(s) growing on surfaces)
    Hypernym: plant
* lichen (symbiotic association(s) of algae and fungi)
    Synonym: korstmos
* (obsolete, rare) swamp, marsh

#### Derived terms

* bekermos
* bladmos
* haarmos
* korstmos
* kussentjesmos
* mosbloempje
* parapluutjesmos
* rendiermos
* schaduwmos
* sterrenmos
* veenmos

### Anagrams

* som

## Franco-Provençal
### Determiner

mos
* masculine plural of mon

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mośke-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmoʃ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oʃ

### Verb

mos
* (transitive) to wash something (to clean with water, including brushing one’s teeth)
    Perfectives: megmos, kimos, lemos
    Troponyms: csutakol, öblít, sikál, súrol, suvickol
    Hypernym: tisztít
    kezet, arcot mos ― to wash one’s hands, face
    fogat mos ― to brush one’s teeth

#### Derived terms

* mosakodik, mosakszik
* mosat
* mosatlan
* mosás
* mosdik → mosdat, mosdó
* moshatatlan
* mosható
* moslék
* mosoda
* mosogat
* mosó
(With verbal prefixes):
* átmos
* bemos
* elmos
* felmos
* kimos
* lemos
* megmos
* összemos
* fogat mos
* mossa kezeit

### References

* ↑ Entry #568 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ mos in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* mos 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

### Anagrams

* som

## Kalasha
### Etymology

From Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms.

### Noun

mos
* meat

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mōs, root noun interpreted as s-stem noun of uncertain origin. Generally believed to derive from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“to intend or be intent upon, to be of strong will”) (though the more common meaning of "to measure" may be the original, with "to intend" as a semantic extension), whence Ancient Greek μαίομαι (maíomai, “to strive”) and perhaps Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă, “Muse”), and also English mood.
It has also been conjectured that some senses of mōs, such as those having to do with "manner" and "way", may indicate a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”), compare and contrast modus; if that is true, it would seem to suggest an example of combined etymology or etymologic conflation.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /moːs/, [moːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /mos/, [mɔs]

### Noun

mōs m (genitive mōris); third declension
* manner (of behaving), way (of behaving); behavior, conduct
    Synonym: modus
** 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :Quid istuc, quaeso? qui istic mos est, Clitipho? itane fieri oportet?Tell me, what are you up to? What sort of behavior’s this, Clitipho? Is this the proper way to act?
** 27 BCE – 9 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Libri 28:Ceterum asperitas locorum et Celtiberis, quibus in proelio concursare mos est, velocitatem inutilem faciebat...But the roughness of the ground made nimbleness of no use to the Celtiberians, whose manner it is to be skirmishers in battle...
** 60 CE – 65 CE, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Epistula LXXXVI:Magna ergo me voluptas subiit contemplantem mores Scipionis ac nostros.It was therefore a great pleasure to me to contrast Scipio’s ways with our own.
* custom, habit, practice, usage, wont
    Synonyms: habitus, usus, solitum, exemplum
** 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe :Vah! quam vellem etiam noctu amicis operam mos esset dari!Oh! How I wish it was the custom to offer services to friends at night as well!
** 63 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda :Interfectum esse L. Catilinam et gravissimo supplicio adfectum iam pridem oportebat, idque a me et mos maiorum et huius imperi severitas et res publica postulabat.Lucius Catilina ought to have suffered the supreme penalty and been put to death long ago, a course required of me by the practice of our ancestors, the stern tradition of my office, and by interests of state.
** 41 BCE – 40 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De Bello Iugurthino :Ceterum mos partium popularium et factionum ac deinde omnium malarum artium paucis ante annis Romae ortus est otio atque abundantia earum rerum quae prima mortales ducunt.Furthermore, the usage of political groups and factions, and afterward of all evil practices, originated at Rome a few years before this as the result of peacetime and of an abundance of those things that mortals prize most highly.
** 40 BCE – 35 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Historiae Liber IV :...qui quidem mos ut tabes in urbem coiectus......which habit, in truth, foisted upon the City, like a plague...
** 13 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Liber IV :...nullis polluitur casta domus stupris, mos et lex maculosum edomuit nefas......the home is pure, unstained by any lewdness, custom and law have gained control over the plague of vice...
** 60 CE – 65 CE, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Epistula XV:Mos antiquis fuit usque ad meam servatus aetatem.The old Romans had a custom which survived even into my lifetime.
** 121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum Liber VI: Nero:Reversus e Graecia Neapolim, quod in ea primum artem protulerat, albis equis introiit disiecta parte muri, ut mos hieronicarum est...Returning from Greece, since it was at Naples that he had made his first appearance, he entered that city with white horses through a part of the wall which had been thrown down, as is the custom with victors in the sacred games...
** 121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum Liber VII: Galba:...ut triumphaturi Caesares inde laureas decerperent; fuitque mos triumphantibus, alias confestim eodem loco pangere; et observatum est sub cuiusque obitum arborem ab ipso institutam elanguisse....moreover it was the habit of those who triumphed to plant other branches at once in that same place, and it was observed that just before the death of each of them the tree which he had planted withered.
* (predominantly plural) character; disposition, inclination, temperament
    Synonyms: animus, dispositiō, inclīnātiō, temperamentum
** 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :Edepol te, mea Antiphila, laudo et fortunatam iudico, id quom studuisti isti formae ut mores consimiles forent...In heaven’s name, my dear Antiphila, I congratulate you and I judge you fortunate, in that you have made it your concern to see that your temperament matches your beauty...
** 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :Vobis cum uno semel ubi aetatem agere decretumst viro, quoius mos maxume consimilis vostrum, hi se ad vos applicant.With you, on the other hand, once you have decided to live your life with the one man whose disposition is most compatible with yours, they devote themselves to you.
** 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.17.3:Spondebo enim tibi, vel potius spondeo in meque recipio, eos esse M'. Curii mores eamque quum probitatem, tum etiam humanitatem, ut eum et amicitia tua et tam accurata commendatione, si tibi sit cognitus, dignum sis existimaturus.I shall pledge my word to you, or rather give you my promise and solemn undertaking, that such is M'. Curius's character, such his integrity and his kindliness combined, that if you make his acquaintance, you will assuredly deem him worthy of both your friendship and of so elaborate a recommendation.
** 116 CE, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales :Multa sine dubio saevaque Augustus de moribus adulescentis questus, ut exilium eius senatus consulto sanciretur, perfecerat; ceterum in nullius umquam suorum necem duravit, neque mortem nepoti pro securitate privigni inlatam credibile erat. Propius vero Tiberium ac Liviam, illum metu, hanc novercalibus odiis, suspecti et invisi iuvenis caedem festinavisse. Nuntianti centurioni, ut mos militiae, factum esse quod imperasset, neque imperasse sese et rationem facti reddendam apud senatum respondit.It was beyond question that by his frequent and bitter strictures on the youth’s character Augustus had procured the senatorial decree for his exile: on the other hand, at no time did he harden his heart to the killing of a relative, and it remained incredible that he should have sacrificed the life of a grandchild in order to diminish the anxieties of a stepson. More probably, Tiberius and Livia, actuated in the one case by fear, and in the other by stepmotherly dislike, hurriedly procured the murder of a youth whom they suspected and detested. To the centurion who brought the usual military report, that his instructions had been carried out, the emperor rejoined that he had given no instructions and the deed would have to be accounted for in the senate.
* will, self-will, humor, caprice
    Synonyms: arbitrium, voluntas
** 190 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus, Truculentus :Tu dedisti iam, hic daturust: istuc habeo, hoc expeto. Uerum utrique mos geratur amborum ex sententia.You have already given, he will still give: yours I have, his I’m seeking. But each of you will be gratified according to your wishes.
** 191 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus :Mos tibi geretur. Sed quid hoc, quaeso?I will obey you. But what’s this, please?
* (transf.) quality, nature, mode, fashion
** 35 BCE – 34 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Satira IX :Ibam forte Via Sacra, sicut meus est mos nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis...I was strolling by chance along the Sacred Way, a musing after my fashion (literally, as is my custom) on some trifle or other, and wholly intent thereon...
* (transf.) precept, law, rule
* (plural only) morals, principles
** 63 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Prima :O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives?

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* mōrālis
* mōrātus
* mōrem gerō
* mōrigerus
* mōrōsus
* mōs maiōrum
* mōs prō lēge
* mōs Teutonicus

#### Descendants

* Italian: more
* Dutch: mores
* English: meo more, mores
* French: mœurs
* Romanian: moare

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōs, mōris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 390-1

### Further reading

* “mos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "mos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* mos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. according to the present custom, fashion: his moribus to comply with a person's wishes; to humour: alicui morem gerere, obsequi to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere to improve a person: mores alicuius corrigere moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem) something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius) character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11) to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28) it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84) (ambiguous) the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges (ambiguous) Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes (ambiguous) to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere) (ambiguous) to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death: inediā mori or vitam finire (ambiguous) to make a person laugh: risum elicere (more strongly excutere) alicui (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori (ambiguous) to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari (ambiguous) to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid (ambiguous) to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut) (ambiguous) a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio (ambiguous) to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere (ambiguous) to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2) (ambiguous) to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare) (ambiguous) to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse) (ambiguous) to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem) (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: morum praecepta tradere alicui (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est (ambiguous) according to the custom and tradition of my fathers: more institutoque maiorum (Mur. 1. 1) (ambiguous) to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
* “mos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “mos”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

### Further reading

* mos maiorum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Middle English
### Etymology

From Old English mos (“moss”). Related to mese, from Old English mēos.

### Noun

mos
* moss

## Old English
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old High German mos.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mos/

#### Noun

mos n
* moss

##### Descendants

* Middle English: mos, mosse
** Scots: mos
** English: moss

### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“food”).
Akin to Old Saxon mōs (“food”), Old High German muos (German Mus, Gemüse (“food, vegetables”), Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːs/

#### Noun

mōs n
* food, nourishment, victuals

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Related terms

* mēsan

##### Descendants

* Middle English: mos, mose
** >? English: mush
** >? Scots: moosh

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old English mos.

### Noun

mos n
* moss

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: mos
** German: Moos
** Hunsrik: Moos
** Luxembourgish: Moos

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* mus

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *moxs, from Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Latin mox (“soon”). Doublet of moch.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mos]

### Adverb

mos (preverbal; followed by the dependent form of the verb)
* soon
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28$^c$9
    Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

#### Related terms

* mó

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mos-, mus-, mo-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 241; reprinted 2017

## Old Occitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mos/

### Adjective

mos
* my
** c. 1160, Bernart de Ventadorn, canso:
    Que mos chantars no·m val gaire / Ni mas voutas ni mei so [...]. For my song little avails me, nor my verses, nor my airs.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### See also
## Penobscot
### Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

### Noun

mos
* moose

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “moose”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ “mos”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Mass.

### Noun

mos m (uncountable)
* a cup

#### Declension
### References

* mos in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muːs/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse *mós, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“mush, porridge”).

#### Noun

mos n
* mash, puree, something mashed
    en grillad med mosa grilled hot dog with mashed potatoes
    göra mos av någon (idiomatic)utterly defeat someone or the like(literally, “make mash out of someone”)

##### Derived terms

* mosa
* mosbricka
* mosig
* potatismos
* rotmos
* snömos
* äppelmos

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mos
* indefinite genitive singular of mo

### References

* mos in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mos in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* som

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɒ˩/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mənX/H (“fine (as of flour)”).

#### Adjective

mos
* fine, small (of writing, embroidery, etc.)
* young and tender
* (of speech) soft and polite
    Lus mos lus tuaj pos. ― Soft words are thorny words.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *məuŋX (“fly (insect)”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 蠓 (MC muwng|muwngX, “midge”).

#### Noun

mos
* (in compounds) fly

##### Derived terms

* yoov mos dab (“horse fly”)
* yoov mos ntsuab (“green bottle fly”)

### Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from Chinese 摩 (mó, “to rub”).

#### Verb

mos
* to rub, massage
    mos nplej ― to rub rice (off the stalk with hands or feet)
    mos qhov muag ― to rub the eyes
    mos plab ― to massage the abdomen or stomach, to rub the tummy
* to lunge
* to wrestle
* to rape
* to squash or squeeze into a pulp, as in preparing certain vegetables

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 130.
* 1 2 Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 276.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 160.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25