mukula
English
Etymology
Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.
Noun
mukula (uncountable)
- (Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix
Further reading
- Shi Yi (2017 January 20) “Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem”, in Earth Journalism Network, archived from the original on 21 August 2019
- Xue Weng, Paolo Cerutti, Penias Banda and Davison Gumbo (2017 April 19) “Saving trees or improving lives? Tackling illegal logging in Zambia's forests”, in International Institute for Environment and Development
- Paolo Omar Cerutti, Davison Gumbo, Kaala Moombe, George Schoneveld, Robert Nasi, Nils Bourland and Xiaoxue Weng (2018) Informality, global capital, rural development and the environment: Mukula (rosewood) trade between China and Zambia, International Institute for Environment and Development
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmukulɑ/, [ˈmukulɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ukulɑ
- Syllabification(key): mu‧ku‧la
Noun
mukula
- (botany) tuber (fleshy underground stem)
- (modifier) tuberous, and other translations (of, relating to, resembling, or producing tubers)
- mukulajuures ― tuberous root vegetable
- mukulakivi ― cobblestone
- (horticulture) tuber (thickened rootstock)
- lump (mound or mass of no particular shape)
- (colloquial) kid (little child)
Declension
| Inflection of mukula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | mukula | mukulat | ||
| genitive | mukulan | mukuloiden mukuloitten | ||
| partitive | mukulaa | mukuloita | ||
| illative | mukulaan | mukuloihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | mukula | mukulat | ||
| accusative | nom. | mukula | mukulat | |
| gen. | mukulan | |||
| genitive | mukulan | mukuloiden mukuloitten mukulainrare | ||
| partitive | mukulaa | mukuloita | ||
| inessive | mukulassa | mukuloissa | ||
| elative | mukulasta | mukuloista | ||
| illative | mukulaan | mukuloihin | ||
| adessive | mukulalla | mukuloilla | ||
| ablative | mukulalta | mukuloilta | ||
| allative | mukulalle | mukuloille | ||
| essive | mukulana | mukuloina | ||
| translative | mukulaksi | mukuloiksi | ||
| abessive | mukulatta | mukuloitta | ||
| instructive | — | mukuloin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Hypernyms
- (botany): varastoelin
Further reading
- “mukula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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