mow

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈməʊ/
  Play
• General-American: /ˈmoʊ/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• Australian: /ˈməʉ/
  Play
• New-Zealand: /ˈmɐʉ/
  Play
• Scotland: /ˈmo/
  Play
• Wales: /ˈmou/ without the toe–tow merger
  Play
• rhymes with -əʊ
  Play
• UK: /məʊ/
  Play
• US: /moʊ/
  Play
• /maʊ̯/
  Play
• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -aʊ
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: M OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Various origins: * A variant of the surname Mao. * A variant of the surnames Mowe or Maw. * A Scottish habitational surname, from a place in the parish of Morebattle.

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-West Germanic *māan, from Proto-Germanic *mēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h2meh1- (“to mow, reap”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mjo (“to mow”), Dutch maaien (“to mow”), German mähen (“to mow”), Luxembourgish méien (“to mow”), Danish meje (“to mow”), Swedish meja (“to mow”); see also Hittite [script needed] (ḫamešḫa, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin metō (“to harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ἀμάω (amáō, “to mow”).

From Middle English mowe, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").

From Middle English mowe, form Old English mūga, mūha, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō, *mūhō, from Proto-Germanic *mūgô, *mūhō; perhaps connected to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “heap”). Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

159 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гримаса (grimasa) — a grimace
• Korean: 썩은 표정 (sseogeun pyojeong) — a grimace
• Korean: 우거지상 (ugeojisang) — a grimace
• Korean: 오만상 (omansang) — a grimace
• Russian: грима́са (grimása) — a grimace
• Bulgarian: купа сено (kupa seno) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Georgian: ზვინი (zvini) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Korean: 건초 더미 (geoncho deomi) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Korean: 볏단 (byeotdan) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Middle English: mowe — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Polish: stóg — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Russian: стог (stog) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Russian: скирда́ (skirdá) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Russian: сенова́л (senovál) — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Spanish: hacina — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Spanish: granero — a stack or barn of/for hay, corn, beans
• Bulgarian: сеновал (senoval) — the place in a barn
• Korean: 건초창고 (geonchochanggo) — the place in a barn
• Korean: 곡창 (gokchang) — the place in a barn
• Arabic: جَزَّ (jazza) — to cut down
• Arabic: حشّ (ḥəšš) — to cut down
• Armenian: հնձել (hnjel) — to cut down
• Aromanian: tundu — to cut down
• Belarusian: касі́ць (kasícʹ) — to cut down
• Belarusian: секчы́ (sjekčý) — to cut down
• Bulgarian: кося́ (kosjá) — to cut down
• Buryat: хадаха (xadaxa) — to cut down
• Catalan: segar — to cut down
• Chickasaw: amo — to cut down
• Chinese Mandarin: 刈 (yì) — to cut down
• Chinese Mandarin: 割 (gē) — to cut down
• Chinese Mandarin: 割草 (gēcǎo) — to cut down
• Czech: kosit — to cut down
• Czech: sekat — to cut down
• Czech: žnout — to cut down
• Czech: síci — to cut down
• Danish: meje — to cut down
• Danish: slå — to cut down
• Danish: klippe — to cut down
• Dutch: maaien — to cut down
• Esperanto: tondi — to cut down
• Esperanto: falĉi — to cut down
• Estonian: niitma — to cut down
• Finnish: niittää — to cut down
• Finnish: leikata ruohoa — to cut down
• French: couper l'herbe — to cut down
• French: faucher — to cut down
• French: tondre le gazon — to cut down
• Galician: restrebar — to cut down
• Galician: seiturar — to cut down
• Galician: segar — to cut down
• Galician: raer — to cut down
• Galician: atrollar — to cut down
• Galician: lampear — to cut down
• Galician: gadañar — to cut down
• Galician: cernar — to cut down
• Galician: fradar — to cut down
• Galician: esmozar — to cut down
• Galician: degallar — to cut down
• Galician: demoucar — to cut down
• Galician: espolar — to cut down
• Gallo: faoucher — to cut down
• German: mähen — to cut down
• German: schneiden — to cut down
• Hebrew: כיסוח (kisokh) — to cut down
• Icelandic: slá — to cut down
• Icelandic: slá gras — to cut down
• Indonesian: memotong rumput — to cut down
• Ingrian: löövvä — to cut down
• Irish: bain — to cut down
• Italian: falciare — to cut down
• Italian: tagliare l'erba — to cut down
• Italian: mietere — to cut down
• Japanese: 刈る (karu) — to cut down
• Kalmyk: хадх (xadx) — to cut down
• Korean: 베다 (beda) — to cut down
• Korean: 깎다 (kkakda) — to cut down
• Ladin: sië — to cut down
• Latgalian: pļaut — to cut down
• Latgalian: kauseit — to cut down
• Latin: tondeō — to cut down
• Latvian: pļaut — to cut down
• Macedonian: ко́си (kósi) — to cut down
• Sougb: ahan — to cut down
• Māori: tipi — to cut down
• Mirandese: cortar — to cut down
• Mongolian: хадах (xadax) — to cut down
• Norman: faûchi — to cut down
• Norwegian: slå — to cut down
• Norwegian: skjære — to cut down
• Norwegian: klippe — to cut down
• Church Slavic: сѣщи (sěšti) — to cut down
• Old English: māwan — to cut down
• Ossetian: кӕрдын (kærdyn) — to cut down
• Polish: kosić — to cut down
• Polish: skosić — to cut down
• Polish: żąć — to cut down
• Polish: zżąć — to cut down
• Polish: siec — to cut down
• Portuguese: cortar — to cut down
• Quechua: ichhuy — to cut down
• Romanian: tunde — to cut down
• Russian: коси́ть (kosítʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: ска́шивать (skášivatʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: скоси́ть (skosítʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: покоси́ть (pokosítʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: откоси́ть (otkosítʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: сечь (sečʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: посе́чь (poséčʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: вы́сечь (výsečʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: жать (žatʹ) — to cut down
• Russian: пожа́ть (požátʹ) — to cut down
• Scottish Gaelic: buain — to cut down
• Serbo-Croatian: косити — to cut down
• Serbo-Croatian: kositi — to cut down
• Sicilian: faucijari — to cut down
• Sicilian: mètiri — to cut down
• Sicilian: tagghiari i fraschi — to cut down
• Slovak: kosiť — to cut down
• Slovak: sekať — to cut down
• Slovak: žať — to cut down
• Slovak: siecť — to cut down
• Slovene: kositi — to cut down
• Slovene: pokositi — to cut down
• Lower Sorbian: sec — to cut down
• Spanish: podar — to cut down
• Spanish: segar — to cut down
• Swedish: slå — to cut down
• Swedish: klippa — to cut down
• Swedish: meja — to cut down
• Ottoman Turkish: طرپانلامق (tırpanlamak) — to cut down
• Ukrainian: коси́ти (kosýty) — to cut down
• Ukrainian: сікти́ (siktý) — to cut down
• Unami: tëmàskwe — to cut down
• Vietnamese: cắt — to cut down
• Vietnamese: cắt cỏ — to cut down
• Walloon: fåtchî — to cut down
• Walloon: soyî — to cut down
• Walloon: tonde — to cut down
• Welsh: lladd gwair — to cut down
• Zazaki: çinitene — to cut down
• Zazaki: çinen — to cut down
• Zazaki: çinayen — to cut down
• Bulgarian: гримаснича (grimasniča) — to make grimaces, mock
• Korean: 썩은 표정을 짓다 (sseogeun pyojeong-eul jitda) — to make grimaces, mock
• Korean: 찌푸리다 (jjipurida) — to make grimaces, mock
• Korean: 찡그리다 (jjinggeurida) — to make grimaces, mock
• Lithuanian: vaipytis — to make grimaces, mock
• Russian: грима́сничать (grimásničatʹ) — to make grimaces, mock
• Russian: стро́ить ро́жи (stróitʹ róži) — to make grimaces, mock
• Korean: 쌓다 (ssata) — to put into mows
• Korean: 저장하다 (jeojanghada) — to put into mows
• Middle English: mowen — to put into mows
• Russian: стогова́ть (stogovátʹ) — to put into mows
• Russian: скирдова́ть (skirdovátʹ) — to put into mows
• Spanish: hacinar — to put into mows
• Spanish: amontonar — to put into mows
• Spanish: apilar — to put into mows
• Spanish: almacenar — to put into mows