Feminine

mula

Meaning

  1. (feminine) mule (hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse)
  2. (feminine, form-of, rare) female equivalent of mulo (“female mule”)
  3. (feminine, figuratively) a stubborn person
  4. (feminine, jargon) a pile of salt
  5. (feminine) drug mule

mulo

male mule

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmu.lɐ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mula, a learned borrowing from Latin mūla, from mūlus + -a. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese mua.

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