moza

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoθa/, [ˈmo.θa]

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moza

1. feminine singular of mozu

From Old Galician-Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moça, Asturian and Spanish moza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoθa̝/, (western) /ˈmosa̝/

moza f (plural mozas, masculine mozo, masculine plural mozos)

1. girl; teenager; young lady; single woman

   Synonyms: mulleriña, rapariga

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 129:

     Iten, que dían os çapatos de moços e moças de quinse anos fasta viinte, a des mrs, tacoados et sollados et ben apostados et de boo coyro e ben coseytos; et sengellos, a seys mrs.

     Item, they should give the shoes for boys and girls, from fifteen till twenty years old, tacked and soled and corrected and made of good leather and well sewn, at ten maravedis; the simple ones, at six maravedis

2. girlfriend

   Synonym: noiva

• mociña

moza

1. feminine singular of mozo

• “moça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “moça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “moza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “moza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔza]
• Hyphenation: mo‧za

moza

1. inflection of mozs:
   1. indefinite genitive singular masculine
   2. indefinite nominative singular feminine

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 15

• moça (obsolete)

Unknown origin, probably ultimately related to muchacho.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈmoθa/ [ˈmo.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈmosa/ [ˈmo.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -oθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: mo‧za

moza f (plural mozas, masculine mozo, masculine plural mozos)

1. female equivalent of mozo

• → Taos: mų̀siʼína
• → Navajo: mósí

moza f

1. feminine singular of mozo

• “moza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014