# mu
## English
### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), derived from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /⁠mem⁠/, “water”). Doublet of mem.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /muː/, /mjuː/
* Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -uː
** Homophone: moo (first pronunciation only)
** Homophone: mew (second pronunciation only)
* (General American) IPA: /mju/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
** Rhymes: -uː
** Homophone: mew

#### Noun

mu (countable and uncountable, plural mus)
* The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.

##### Derived terms

* mu-meson, muon
* mu-metal

##### See also

* (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

### Etymology 2

From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /muː/
** Homophone: moo
* (US) IPA: /mjuː/, /muː/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Homophone: mew (first pronunciation only)
** Homophone: moo (second pronunciation only)

#### Interjection

mu
* (Zen Buddhism) Neither yes nor no.
** 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN:Mu means "no thing." Like "Quality" it points outside the process of dualistic discrimination. Mu simply says, "No class; not one, not zero, not yes, not no." […] It's a great mistake, a kind of dishonesty, to sweep nature's mu answers under the carpet.
** 1979, Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid:Achilles: Oh, but MU is Jōshū’s answer. By saying MU, Jōshū let the other monk know that only by not asking such questions can one know the answer to them. Tortoise: Jōshū “unasked” the question. […] Achilles: […] And the answer of “MU” here rejects the premises of the question, which are that one or the other must be chosen.
** 1996, Dan Simmons, “Looking for Kelly Dahl”, in The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 424:"Mu," said Kelly Dahl. On one level mu means only yes, but on a deeper level of Zen it was often used by the master when the acolyte asked a stupid, unanswerable or wrongheaded question such as "Does a dog have the Buddha-nature?" The Master would answer only, "Mu," meaning—I say "yes" but mean "no," but the actual answer is: Unask the question.
** 2002, Norman Waddell, Masao Abe, The Heart of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, page 72:The Fifth Patriarch's utterance You say mu [Buddha-nature] because Buddha-nature is emptiness articulates clearly and distinctly the truth that emptiness is not "no". In uttering Buddha-nature-emptiness one does not say "half a pound." One does not say "eight ounces." One says "mu."
** 2010, Joan Price, Sacred Scriptures of the World Religions, page 70:A monk once asked Master Joshu, 'Has a dog the Buddha Nature or not?' Joshu said, 'Mu!'

#### Noun

mu (uncountable)
* (Zen Buddhism) Nothingness; nonexistence; the illusory nature of reality.
** 2012, Omori, Introduction To Zen Training, →ISBN, page 115:That being the case, we should naturally choose to contemplate mu from morning to night, forgetting everything.
** 2012, Dr Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy, →ISBN:Consequently, though mu is mindlike, the likeness to individual consciousness cannot be pushed very far.
** 2013, Sean Murphy, Natalie Goldberg, One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories, →ISBN, page xvii:The monk posed to Chaoi-chou a question: Does a dog have a buddha nature or not?" Chao-chou, without a moment's hesitation, answered, “Mu." (Translated as "No.")
** 2013, Maura O'Halloran, Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind, →ISBN:If mu is mind, consciousness, it is nothing.

##### Usage notes

Used to answer a question that if answered with "yes" or "no" would imply something false.

##### Synonyms

* (nothingness): See also Thesaurus:inexistence

#### See also

* (non-affirmative, non-negative answer): n/a

### Etymology 3

From Mandarin 畝／亩 (mǔ).

#### Noun

mu (plural mu)
* A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to two-thirtieths of a hectare.
** [1959 September, Tung Ta-lin [董大林], “The Inevitability of Quick Transition from Lower to Higher Stage of Agricultural Co-operation”, in Agricultural Co-operation in China [中国农业合作化的道路] (China Knowledge Series)‎, 2nd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 72:The Lucky Star Co-operative in Chuwo County on the plains of southern Shansi had, before the anti-Japanese war, 26 wells, 4 water-wheels and 166.1 mou of irrigated fields, 4.82 per cent of its total arable land.]
** [1965 July 9 [1965 June 7], “Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts‎, number 131, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Domestic Service, →OCLC, page DDD 2‎:Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh. The county reported remarkable increased in its 600,000 mou of summer food crops this year, surpassing the yield in 1962 which was considered as the best year.]
** 2004, Peter Ho, “The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?”, in Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125‎:Pengyang county was administered by Guyuan before 1988. In contrast to Guyuan, Pengyang is relatively wealthy. Farmers earn a considerable income through tobacco cultivation, which can yield an annual gross income of Rmb 1,500-2,000 per mu. In 1996, the cultivated area of tobacco in Pengyang was 11,000 mu.⁷
** 2007, Chang Liu, Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949, page 87:Of 114 village farming families, only ten had more than 30 mu of land and only five had more than 60 mu.

### Anagrams

* 'um, -um, UM, um, um-

## Albanian
### Pronoun

mu
* Dialectal form of mua

## Anguthimri
### Noun

mu
* (Mpakwithi) buttocks

### References

* Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

## Asturian
### Interjection

mu
* moo (sound made by a cow or bull)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmu]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

mu
* singular dative of on
    Řekni mu, že jím. ― Tell him, I am eating.
* singular dative of ono

#### Synonyms

* jemu

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῦ (mû). Doublet of mem and majem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mu m (plural mu's, diminutive muutje n)
* mu (letter of the Greek alphabet)

### Further reading

* mu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Estonian
### Pronoun

mu
* genitive singular of ma

#### Usage notes

* Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, minu (genitive of mina) is used.

## Extremaduran
### Adverb

mu
* very

### See also

* muchu

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mu m (plural mu)
* mu (Greek letter)

### Participle

mu (feminine mue, masculine plural mus, feminine plural mues)
* post-1990 spelling of mû

### Further reading

* “mu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hanga Hundi
### Noun

mu
* (a) crocodile

### Further reading

* Hanga Hundi Organised Phonology Data (2011)

## Hausa
### Etymology

Cognates include Mangas mun, Polci mii, Miship mun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /múː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [múː]

### Pronoun

mū
* we (1st person plural pronoun)

## Ikobi-Mena
### Noun

mu (Mena), mụ (Ikobi)
* water

### References

* Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

### Pronoun

mu
* (text messaging, informal) Alternative spelling of -mu

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: mù

### Noun

mu m or f (invariable)
* the name of the letter M

## Japanese
### Romanization

mu
* The hiragana syllable む (mu) or the katakana syllable ム (mu) in Hepburn romanization.

## Jingpho
### Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

### Noun

mu
* two anna bit

### References

* Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

## Jurchen
### Noun

mu
* water

### References

* Gisaburō Norikura Kiyose, A Study of the Jurchen Language and Script: Reconstruction and Decipherment (1977)

## Kituba
### Pronoun

mu
* I

## Kom (Cameroon)
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mu
* water

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

mu
* old

### References

* Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

## Malay
### Etymology

Shortened form of kamu, from Proto-Malayic *kamu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/
* Rhymes: -mu, -u

### Pronoun

mu
* you

### See also
## Mandarin
### Romanization

mu
* Nonstandard spelling of mū.
* Nonstandard spelling of mú.
* Nonstandard spelling of mǔ.
* Nonstandard spelling of mù.

#### 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.

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈmuː/

### Pronoun

mū
* accusative/genitive of mun

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mu]

### Determiner

mu (triggers lenition)
* Alternative form of mo (“my”)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: mu

### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* jemu, niemu

#### Pronoun

mu m
* dative singular mute of on

#### Pronoun

mu n
* dative singular mute of ono

#### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

mu
* moo (sound made by cows and bulls)

##### Derived terms

* muczenie
* muczeć

### Further reading

* mu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmu/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: mu

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muu, from Latin mūlum (“mule”). Doublet of mulo.

#### Noun

mu m (plural mus)
* mule
    Synonym: mulo

##### Related terms

* mua
* mula
* mulato
* mulo

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû).

#### Noun

mu m (plural mus)
* mu (Greek letter)
* Synonym of muão, múon (“muon”)

### Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

#### Alternative forms

* muu, muuu, etc.

#### Interjection

mu
* moo (the call of a cow)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

mu
* moo (sound made by cows)

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish imb. Cognates include Irish um and Manx mysh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mə/, [ma]

### Preposition

mu (+ dative, triggers lenition, combined with the singular definite article mun)
* about, around
    Bha craobhan mu ghàrradh an taighe. ― There were trees around the house's yard.
* about, concerning
    Bha sinn a' bruidhinn mu làithean san sgoil againn. ― We were talking about our days at school.
* about, approximately
    Bidh a' chuairt a' toirt mu thrì uairean. ― The trip will take about three hours.
* (dated) on (of clothes)
    Dè chuireas mi umam? ― What shall I wear?

#### Derived terms

* mu chuairt (“around”)
* mu chuairt air (“about”)
* mu dheidhinn (“concerning”)
* mu dheireadh (“last (adjective); at last”)
* mun cuairt (“around”)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronoun

mu (Cyrillic spelling му)
* to him (clitic dative singular of ȏn (“he”))
* to it (clitic dative singular of òno (“it”))
* (emphatic, possessive, dative) his, of his (clitic dative singular of ȏn (“he”))
    Gdje mu je auto?Where is his car?
* (emphatic, possessive, dative) its, of its (clitic dative singular of òno (“it”))

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Alternative forms

* jemu, nemu (after prepositions)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mu]

### Pronoun

mu
* dative of on and ono

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmu/ [ˈmu]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: mu

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

mu
* moo (sound of a cow)

##### Derived terms

* ni mu
* no decir ni mu

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mu f (plural múes)
* Misspelling of mi. (mu, the Greek letter Μ, μ)

### Etymology 3
#### Adverb

mu
* (slang) Clipping of muy.

### Further reading

* “mu”, 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

## Sumerian
### Romanization

mu
* Romanization of 𒈬 (mu)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʉː/
* Rhymes: -ʉː

### Interjection

mu
* moo

### Noun

mu n
* moo; the sound of a cow or a bull

### See also

* råma

### Anagrams

* -um

## Tày
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmuːᴬ (“pig”). Cognate with Thai หมู (mǔu), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩪ, Lao ໝູ (mū), Lü ᦖᦴ (ṁuu), Tai Dam ꪢꪴ, Shan မူ (mǔu), Ahom 𑜉𑜥 (mū), Zhuang mou, Bouyei mul.

### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [mu˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [mu˦˥]

### Noun

mu (𤝕, 牳)
* pig

#### References

* Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội

## Tooro
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-mòì. Cognate with Kikuyu -mwe and Zulu -nye.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

### Numeral

-mu
* one
    omuntu omu ― one person
* (in the plural) some
    abantu abamu ― some people
* (in the plural) same
    abantu abamu ― the same people

#### Derived terms

* obumu (“unity”)
* hamu (“together”)

### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 145
* Rubongoya, L. T. (2013) Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎, Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, pages 238, 542, 571, 583

## Turkish
### Particle

mu
* Used to form interrogatives.
    Ona bu soruyu sordun mu?
       Did you ask him/her this question?
    Mutlu musun?
       Are you happy?
    Pikniğe gitmiyor muyuz?
       Aren't we going for a picnic?

#### Usage notes

* Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative particles, as well as the past tense suffixes.
* This form is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "o" or "u". Other forms used with different vowels are: mı?, mi? and mü?

## Tzotzil
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

mu
* delicious

### Etymology 2
#### Particle

mu
* (negation) not
    Mu jna'. ― I do not know him/her/it.

##### Synonyms

* muk'

##### Derived terms

(particles)
* mu'yuk

### References

* “mu(1)”, “mu(2)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
* Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

It is not clear which between "mons veneris" and "carapace" is the more original, although the sense "back" is certainly a derivative.
Compare Zhuang moz.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mu˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [mʊw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mʊw˧˧]

### Noun

mu • (模)
* mons veneris, pubes, the pubic region
* (of hands and feet) back
    mu bàn tay ― back of the hand
* the carapaces (dorsal shells) of some animals (e.g. turtles and crustaceans)
    Synonym: mai

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish muy (“very”).

### Adverb

mu
* extremely

## West Makian
### Etymology

Compare Ternate omu (“ripe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

### Verb

mu
* (stative) to be ripe

#### Alternative forms

* mo

### References

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

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mũ̄/

#### Verb

mu
* to drink
    Má mu ọtí tó o bá fẹ́ wakọ̀. ― Don't drink alcohol if you want to drive.
* to suck
    Ọmọ-ọwọ́ ṣì ń mu ọmú. ― The baby is still sucking breast.
* to lick (juicy fruits such as oranges, or deserts such as ice cream)
    Ọmọdé ń mu ọsàn. ― The child is licking orange.
* to smoke
    Kò kí ń mu sìgá. ― She doesn't smoke cigarettes.

##### Synonyms

Yoruba Varieties and Languages - mu (“to drink, suck, smoke”) :
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| Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Subdialect | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀) | Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀) | Òkìtìpupa | mọ |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | mọ |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Ìtsẹkírì | Ìtsẹkírì | Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | mọ |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Olùkùmi | Olùkùmi | Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | mọ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | mụ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Àkúrẹ́ | Àkúrẹ́ | mụ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Mọ̀bà | Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | mụ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Ẹ̀gbá | Ẹ̀gbá | Abẹ́òkúta | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Ẹ̀gbádò | Ẹ̀gbádò | Ìjàká | mọ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Èkó | Èkó | Èkó | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Standard Yorùbá | Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Standard Yorùbá | Standard Yorùbá | Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Ìyàgbà | Ìyàgbà | Ìsánlú Ìtẹ̀dó | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Owé | Owé | Kabba | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ana | Ana | Sokode | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú) | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Cábɛ̀ɛ́ | Tchaourou | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ǹcà (Ìcà, Ìncà) | Ǹcà (Ìcà, Ìncà) | Baàtɛ | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ìdàácà | Benin | Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀) | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí/Ìjè | Ìkpòbɛ́ | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí/Ìjè | Onigbolo | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè | Kétu/Ànàgó | Kétu | mu |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Ifɛ̀ | Atakpamɛ | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Ifɛ̀ | Boko | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Ifɛ̀ | Moretan | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Ifɛ̀ | Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti) | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Kura | Kura | Aledjo-Koura | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Kura | Kura | Awotébi | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Kura | Kura | Partago | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Mɔ̄kɔ́lé | Mɔ̄kɔ́lé | Kandi | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Northern Nago | Northern Nago | Kambole | mɔ |
| Proto-Yoruba | Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Northern Nago | Northern Nago | Manigri | mɔ |
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. ||||||

##### Derived terms

* ajẹ-òkúta-má-mu-omi
* ẹmu (“palm wine”)
* momi (“to drink water”)
* mọtí (“to drink alcohol”)
* mugbó (“to smoke weed”)
* mumi (“to drink water”)
* mutí (“to drink alcohol”)
* mímu (“drinkable, drinking”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mṹ/

#### Verb

mú
* to take
* to catch
    Àwọn ọlọ́pàá ti mú wa o. ― The police have caught us!
    Mo mú bọ́ọ̀lù. ― I caught the ball.
* to have an effect on (relating to temperature)
    Òtútù ń mú mi. ― I feel cold. (Cold is having an effect on me)
* (auxiliary verb) to cause something to do something else (must be used with another verb)
    Oògùn yẹn mú mi sùn. ― That drug made me sleep.
    Ó mú mi mumi. ― It made me drink water.
* to be sharp
    Ọbẹ̀ náà mú. ― That knife is sharp.

##### Derived terms

* mú wá (“to bring”)
* mú ẹ̀tanú kúrò (“to break down stereotypes”)
* mú dání (“to hold”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mũ̀/

#### Verb

mù
* to be hidden
    Ó mù sábẹ́ igbó. ― It's hidden under the bush.

### Etymology 4

Cognates with Yoruba mọ̀

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mũ̀/

#### Verb

mù
* (Ijebu) to know

##### Derived terms

* mùwé (“to be smart”)

## Zou
### Verb

mu
* see

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf