muda

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): (Valencian) [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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.da/

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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

• “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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• 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

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