muda

From Japanese 無駄.

muda (uncountable)

1. (business) A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work is performed that does not add value for the customer.

   Coordinate terms: mura, muri

• Damu, Duma, Maud, duma, maud

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muda

1. Romanization of ᬫᬸᬤ
2. Romanization of ᬫᬹᬥ

Compare Tagalog mura.

• Hyphenation: mu‧da
• IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.d̪a]

muda

1. swear word; curse word

   Synonym: raway

From Pali muddha (“foolish, bewildered”), from Sanskrit मुग्ध (mugdha, “foolish, bewildered, young”).

• IPA^(key): /muda/
• Hyphenation: mu‧da

muda

1. young (age of a living being)
2. light (shade of colour)

• (antonym(s) of “age”): tua (“old”) (living being)
• (antonym(s) of “colour”): tua (“dark”)

• (age): baru (“new”) (non-living being)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmu.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmu.ða]

Deverbal from mudar.

muda f (plural mudes)

1. change, changing
2. change of clothes
3. moult, moulting

   Synonym: pèl-muda

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muda

1. feminine singular of mut

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

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• moeda (pre-1947)

From Malay muda (“young”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.da]

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• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: mu‧da

muda (superlative termuda)

1. young

   Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, remaja, yunior, yuvenil, yuwana

2. light (colour)
3. unripe

• “muda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.da/
• Rhymes: -uda
• Hyphenation: mù‧da

Deverbal from mudare (“to moult”) +‎ -a.

muda f (plural mude)

1. moult (of a bird)

• mudare
• muta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muda

1. inflection of mudare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muda

1. Rōmaji transcription of むだ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ムダ

muda

1. Romanization of ꦩꦸꦢ

• (Northern) muta

From Proto-Finnic *muta, from Proto-Uralic *muďa.

muda

1. (Southern) mud

muda

1. inflection of muder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *muda (“young (of fruits); immature; light (of colors)”); reconstructed by Robert Blust (compare Tongan mula (“(of yam) lower end while still soft and juicy (as it is while the yam is still immature)”); also compare Amis molaʔ (“immature, unlearned, uneducated, childish, without experience”) from Proto-Austronesian *mudaq).^[1][2]

Or from Pali muddha (“foolish, bewildered”), from Sanskrit मुग्ध (mugdha, “foolish, bewildered, young”).

• IPA^(key): /muda/
• Rhymes: -uda, -da, -a

muda (Jawi spelling مودا)

1. young

   Antonym: tua

   Orang muda ― Young person

2. light (colour)

   Synonym: terang

   Antonyms: tua, gelap, pekat

   Biru muda ― Light blue

3. unripe

   Antonyms: masak, tua

   Manggis muda ― Unripe mangosteen

• > Indonesian: muda (inherited)

• “muda” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• Hyphenation: mu‧da

From Latin mūtam, accusative feminine form of mūtus.

muda

1. feminine singular of mudo

muda f (plural mudas)

1. female equivalent of mudo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muda, deverbal from mudar.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. seedling
2. (zoology, entomology) ecdysis, moult

   Synonym: ecdise

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

muda

1. inflection of múdo:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

muda f sg

1. feminine singular of mudu

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuda/ [ˈmu.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: mu‧da

Deverbal from mudar. Cognate with English moult.

muda f (plural mudas)

1. a change (of clothes, especially underpants)

muda f (plural mudas)

1. female equivalent of mudo (“mute”)

muda

1. feminine singular of mudo

muda

1. inflection of mudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “muda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• mda

From Arabic مُدَّة (mudda).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɗɑ/

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muda (m-mi class, plural miuda)

1. term, period (of time)

From Proto-Finnic *muta.

muda

1. slurry, dredge

Inflection of muda (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	muda
genitive sing.	mudan
partitive sing.	mudad
partitive plur.	mudid
	singular	plural
nominative	muda	mudad
accusative	mudan	mudad
genitive	mudan	mudiden
partitive	mudad	mudid
essive-instructive	mudan	mudin
translative	mudaks	mudikš
inessive	mudas	mudiš
elative	mudaspäi	mudišpäi
illative	mudaha	mudihe
adessive	mudal	mudil
ablative	mudalpäi	mudilpäi
allative	mudale	mudile
abessive	mudata	mudita
comitative	mudanke	mudidenke
prolative	mudadme	mudidme
approximative I	mudanno	mudidenno
approximative II	mudannoks	mudidennoks
egressive	mudannopäi	mudidennopäi
terminative I	mudahasai	mudihesai
terminative II	mudalesai	mudilesai
terminative III	mudassai	—
additive I	mudahapäi	mudihepäi
additive II	mudalepäi	mudilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “взвесь”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika