Mola vs Mora - What's the difference?
mola | mora |
A traditional textile art form of the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia. A mola consists of cloth panels, made to wear on clothing, which feature complex designs made with multiple layers of cloth in a reverse technique.
* 1977 , Rhoda L. Auld, Molas: What they are, How to make them, Ideas they suggest for creative appliqué? , page 67
a sunfish, Mola mola
(Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
(poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
* 1918 , Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , volume 35,
(phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
(botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
* 1904 , W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
(finger-counting game)
An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
As a noun mola
is moth.As a proper noun mora is
or mora can be .mola
English
Noun
(en noun)- The classic mola is pure applique and is distinguished by alternating bands of color.
Anagrams
* ----mora
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)page 22:
- In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae' and a light syllable equivalent to one ' mora .
See also
* syllableDerived terms
* bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraicEtymology 2
New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.Noun
(en noun)- At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.