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mule

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mjuːl/, /mjuːəl/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /mjʉl/, /mjuːəl/, /mjuwəɫ/
• Rhymes: -uːl
• Homophone: mewl

Etymology 1

From Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule and Old English mūl, both from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin).

Noun

mule (plural mules)

2. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
3. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
4. (now rare) A hybrid plant. [from 18th c.]
5. (informal) A stubborn person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stubborn person
6. (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.

   Synonym: drug mule
7. (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
8. (roleplaying games) A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mule.
9. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
10. (sailing) A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
11. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

Synonyms

• (sterile hybrid of donkey and horse): Missouri canary

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: miula
• → Irish: miúil
• → Maori: miūru

Translations

See also

• ass
• donkey
• hinny (male horse × female donkey)
• horse

Verb

mule (third-person singular simple present mules, present participle muling, simple past and past participle muled)

1. (transitive, slang) To smuggle (illegal drugs).

Etymology 2

From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

Noun

mule (plural mules)

2. Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed.

   Synonym: mule shoe

Translations

Anagrams

• lume

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps borrowed from Dutch smuilen.

Verb

mule

1. to smile

Noun

mule

1. smile

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[3], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːlə/, [ˈmuːlə]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.

Noun

mule c (singular definite mulen, plural indefinite muler)

1. muzzle

Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Verb

mule (imperative mul, infinitive at mule, present tense muler, past tense mulede, perfect tense har mulet)

1. pommel, pummel, pound, lick
2. sulk

Synonyms

• (pommel): banke, tæve
• (sulk): surmule

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl/

Noun

mule f (plural mules)

1. mule (animal)
2. mule (footwear)
3. mule (for drug smuggling)

   Synonym: bouletteux

Derived terms

• têtu comme une mule
• tête de mule

Further reading

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

Galician

Verb

mule

1. second-person singular imperative of mulir
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of mulir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.le/
• Rhymes: -ule
• Hyphenation: mù‧le

Noun

mule f

1. plural of mula

Anagrams

• lume

Latin

Noun

mūle

1. vocative singular of mūlus

References

• "mule", 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)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulɛ/, [ˈmulə]

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative plural of mul
2. inflection of mula:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus; reinforced by native Old English mūl, from the same Latin source.

Alternative forms

• mewle, moyle, muile, mul, muyle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiu̯l(ə)/

Noun

mule (plural mules)

1. mule (donkey-horse hybrid)
2. (rare) hinny
3. (rare) idiot

Descendants

• English: mule
• Scots: mule

References

• “mūl(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

mule

1. alternative form of mylne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.

Noun

mule m (definite singular mulen, indefinite plural muler, definite plural mulene)

1. muzzle

References

• “mule” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ulme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mʉː.lə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.

Noun

mule m (definite singular mulen, indefinite plural mular, definite plural mulane)

1. muzzle

Related terms

• myle

Etymology 2

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Verb

mule (present tense mular, past tense mula, past participle mula, passive infinitive mulast, present participle mulande, imperative mule/mul)

1. (intransitive) to pout

References

• “mule” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology 3

Adjective

mule

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndersk) alternative form of mogeleg (“possible”)

Anagrams

• ulme

Old English

Noun

mūle

1. dative singular of mūl

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse múli, from Proto-Germanic *mūlô.

Noun

mūle m

1. muzzle

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: mule

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ulɛ
• Syllabification: mu‧le
• Homophone: mulę

Noun

mule

1. locative/vocative singular of muł

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mul

Noun

mule

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mula

Adjective

mule

1. inflection of muli:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• mule in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

mule c

1. a rhinarium (of an ungulate, like a cow, horse, or reindeer – the front of the upper lip, which is moist in cows and dry in horses and is usually either hairless or has a different type of hair compared to the rest of the muzzle)
   1. (closer in tone, as "mule" is not a technical-sounding word) a nose, a muzzle, tip of the snout

Declension

Derived terms

• mul- och klövsjuka (“foot-and-mouth disease”)

See also

• nos

References

• mule in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mule in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mule in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /muˈle/ [mʊˈlɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: mu‧le

Noun

mulé (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎᜒ)

1. alternative form of mole

Adjective

mulé (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜎᜒ)

1. alternative form of mole

Further reading

• “mule”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• English, Leo James (1987) Tagalog-English dictionary, Manila, Philippines: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 918

Volapük

Noun

mule

1. dative singular of mul

Source: wiktionary.org