muf

See also: MUF

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch muf, from muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mœf/

Adjective

muf (attributive muwwe, comparative muwwer, superlative mufste)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *muska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“wet”). Cognate with Latvian maût (“to plunge”), Serbo-Croatian mȉti (“to wash”).[1]

Adjective

muf (feminine mufe)

  1. unripe (of figs)
  2. (figurative, derogatory) mentally immature

Derived terms
  • mufkë

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “muf”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 276

Dutch

Etymology

From muffen, from Middle Dutch muffen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mʏf/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: muf
  • Rhymes: -ʏf

Adjective

muf (comparative muffer, superlative mufst)

  1. stale, musty (having lost its freshness)

Inflection
Inflection of muf
uninflected muf
inflected muffe
comparative muffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial mufmufferhet mufst
het mufste
indefinite m./f. sing. muffemufferemufste
n. sing. mufmuffermufste
plural muffemufferemufste
definite muffemufferemufste
partitive mufsmuffers—

Derived terms
  • mufheid

Descendants
  • Afrikaans: muf
  • → Papiamentu: mùf, muf

Volapük

Etymology

Probably from English move.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /muf/

Noun

muf (nominative plural mufs)

  1. motion, movement
  2. movement, trend
  • mufön
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