mute

Etymology 1
From, from , , , from + , remodelled after.

Adjective

 * 1) Not having the power of speech; dumb.
 * 2) Silent; not making a sound.
 * 3) * 1956, Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (?, translators), Lion Feuchtwanger (German author), Raquel: The Jewess of Toledo (translation of Die Jüdin von Toledo), Messner, page 178:
 * “ The heathens have broken into Thy Temple, and Thou art silent! Esau mocks Thy Children, and Thou remainest mute! Show thyself, arise, and let Thy Voice resound, Thou mutest among all the mute!”
 * 1) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
 * 2) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
 * 1) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
 * 2) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.

Translations

 * Adyghe: бзако
 * Arabic: أَخْرَس, أَبْكَم
 * Egyptian Arabic: أخرس
 * Aragonese: mudo
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: mut
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: mutu
 * Bau Bidayuh: bebe'
 * Belarusian: нямы́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: majnachalelo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 啞
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, umælende
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: málleysur, dumbur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: mut
 * Galician: mudo
 * German:
 * Low German:
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌱𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄλαλος, ἐνεός, ἄναυδος, ἄφωνος
 * Greenlandic: oqajuitsoq
 * Haitian Creole: bèbè
 * Hebrew: אילם
 * Hindi: गूंगा,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: mállaus
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: mykkä
 * Irish: balbh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 口の利けない
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: لاڵ
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: māms
 * Latin:, infans
 * Latvian: mēms
 * Luxembourgish: stomm
 * Macedonian: нем
 * Malay:, kelu, gagu, tunawicara
 * Manchu: ᡥᡝᠯᡝ
 * Maori: wahangū
 * Middle English: dumb, muet
 * Norman: muet
 * Northern Sami: gielaheapme
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: dumb
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: mudu, mutu
 * Scottish Gaelic: balbh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: не̑м, није̑м, му̏тав
 * Roman:, ,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:, nehovoriaci
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: nimy
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: pireu, wisu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: лол
 * Talysh: lol
 * Tarifit: aynaw, agnaw, aziyzun
 * Tat: lal
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: німи́й
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Votic: nʹemoi
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki:


 * Arabic: صَامِت
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 缄默的, 无声的
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Latin:, infans
 * Maori: hāngū
 * Middle English: dumb, muet
 * Norman: muet
 * Persian: بی‌صدا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Zazaki: bêveng, bêhes

Noun

 * 1)  A stopped consonant; a stop.
 * 2)  An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
 * 3) * 1668 OF Dramatick Poesie, AN ESSAY. By JOHN DRYDEN Esq;
 * As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:
 * 1) A person who does not have the power of speech.
 * 2) A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
 * 3)  An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
 * 4) An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
 * 5) A mute swan.
 * 1)  An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
 * 2) An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
 * 3) A mute swan.
 * 1) An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
 * 2) A mute swan.
 * 1) A mute swan.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: глухоням
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mutulo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: mudo
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Classical Greek: ἄφθογγα
 * Ingrian: mykkä
 * Irish: balbhán
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Old English: dumb
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: balbhan, balbhag
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Ukrainian: німи́й
 * Vietnamese: người câm
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Italian: sordino,
 * Norwegian: sordin
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: mudydd


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To silence, to make quiet.
 * 2)  To turn off the sound of.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, rendre silencieux, rendre muet,
 * Hungarian:
 * Maori: whakangū
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: mettre en silencieux, couper le son,, mettre en sourdine
 * German:
 * Hungarian: lenémít
 * Norwegian: slå av,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:, quitar el sonido
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
From, probably a shortened form of , ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  Of a bird: to defecate.

Noun

 * 1) The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

Translations

 * Norwegian: skitt,

Etymology 3
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To cast off; to moult.

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) mutely, speechlessly

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mouth

Etymology
From,. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  mouth orifice for ingesting food
 * 2) orifice, opening, entrance
 * 3) face
 * 4) kiss
 * 1) orifice, opening, entrance
 * 2) face
 * 3) kiss
 * 1) orifice, opening, entrance
 * 2) face
 * 3) kiss
 * 1) kiss
 * 1) kiss
 * 1) kiss

Verb

 * 1)  to feel sorry for
 * 2)  to complain about

Etymology 2
.

Verb

 * 1)  to produce the sound

Etymology 1
From from  (of unclear origin). Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bribe
 * 2) secrecy

Verb

 * 1)  to bribe
 * 2)  to hide, conceal

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to apply for a mining permit