mukula
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.
Noun
[edit]mukula (uncountable)
- (Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix
Further reading
[edit]- Shi Yi (2017 January 20) “Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem”, in Earth Journalism Network[1], 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[2]
- 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[3], International Institute for Environment and Development
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]mukku + -la, from a back-vowel variant of mykky (possibly by influence from muhku-)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]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 mukulain rare | |
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. |
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- (botany): varastoelin
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “mukula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (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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[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Bantu languages
- English terms derived from Bantu languages
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Dalbergieae tribe plants
- en:Woods
- Finnish terms suffixed with -la (diminutive)
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ukulɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ukulɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Botany
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- fi:Horticulture
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals