# mota
## English
### Noun

mota (uncountable)
* Alternative form of mootah
** 1988, “Providence”, in Mike Watt (lyrics), Sonic Youth (music), Daydream Nation, performed by Sonic Youth, Enigma Records:Thurston... I think it's 10:30. We're calling from Providence, Rhode Island. Did you find your shit? You gotta watch the mota, Thurston, your fuckin memory just goes out the window.

### Anagrams

* TMAO, atom, Mato, toma, Amto, moat, Atom, Moat, atmo

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mota/, [mo̞.t̪a]

### Noun

mota inan
* type, kind, class
* (taxonomy) species
    Synonym: espezie

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “mota”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “mota”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô. Compare French motte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.ta]

### Noun

mota f (plural motes)
* mound, hillock
* (historical) motte
* clod, block of soil
* hummock, tussock
* levee

#### Derived terms

* castell de mota

### Further reading

* “mota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “mota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* mouta

### Etymology

From Medieval Latin motta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔta̝/

### Noun

mota f (plural motas)
* (dated) motte, rampart
** 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaathe aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte
* mound

#### Derived terms

* A Mótega
* Mota

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* ↑ “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Gothic
### Romanization

mōta
* Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

## Hausa
### Etymology

From English motor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /móː.tàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [móː.tàː]

### Noun

mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)
* automobile, car

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin maltha (“mineral pitch”). The original [ɫ] appears to have vocalized to [u̯] in pre-literary Tuscan, with the resulting [au̯] regularly yielding [ɔ], as in Latin aurum (“gold”) > Italian òro. Doublet of malta. Less probably of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Hyphenation: mò‧ta

### Noun

mota f (plural mote)
* mud
    Synonym: fango

#### Derived terms

* moticchio
* motiglio
* motoso

### References

* Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

### Anagrams

* Toma, toma

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mota; compare Apalaí mota, Trió mota, Wayana mota, Waiwai mota, Akawaio mota, Pemon mota, Ye'kwana mota, Yao (South America) hoomotaly.

### Pronunciation

* (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA: [moːta]
* (East Suriname) IPA: [moʔta]

### Noun

mota (possessed motary)
* shoulder

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 320
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “motarï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 305; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 297

## Latin
### Participle

mōta
* inflection of mōtus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

mōtā
* ablative feminine singular of mōtus

### References

* "mota", 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)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Syllabification: mo‧ta

### Verb

mota
* third-person singular present of motać

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
* Hyphenation: mo‧ta

### Noun

mota f (plural motas)
* (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle
    Synonyms: moto, motocicleta

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Motte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Syllabification: mo‧ta

### Noun

mota f
* moth (insect)
    Hypernym: ôwada

### Further reading

* mota in silling.org

## Spanish
### Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder. Or, possibly from Iberian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmota/ [ˈmo.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: mo‧ta

### Noun

mota f (plural motas)
* speck (tiny spot or particle), mote
    Synonyms: partícula, migaja, ápice
* (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana
    Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto
* (textile) pill, fluff

#### Derived terms

* motear
* motero
* motudo

### References

* ↑ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 227

### Further reading

* “mota”, 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

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from English motor.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mota class IX (plural mota class X)
* motor, engine

## Swedish
### Verb

mota (present motar, preterite motade, supine motat, imperative mota)
* to (physically) prevent from going farther (despite attempts), to block
    Den arga mannen försökte ta sig in på puben, men motades av dörrvakternaThe angry man tried to enter the pub, but was blocked by the bouncers
* (with a particle like bort (“away”) or undan (“away”)) to (physically) drive away
    Livvakterna motade bort paparazzifotografernaThe bodyguards pushed (drove (physically)) the paparazzi away

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* mota Olle i grind

### References

* mota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tetum
### Noun

mota
* river

### References

* “mota”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Venetan
### Etymology

Compare Italian monte

### Noun

mota f (plural mote)
* heap, pile

## Volapük
### Noun

mota
* genitive singular of mot

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mota]

### Noun

mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)
* shoulder

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 115