moho

From Maori moho.

moho (plural mohos)

1. The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.

• moho-pereru

From Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with the moho (“rail”).

moho (plural mohos)

1. Synonym of oo.

• “moho”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “moho, n.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

• HOMO, homo, homo-

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móhó

1. together

Borrowed from Portuguese mofo (“mold, mildew”), from Italian muffa (“mould, mildew”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoo/ [ˈmo.o]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Syllabification: mo‧ho

moho m (plural mohos)

1. mildew (US), mold, mould (UK, AU, CA)
2. (dated) rust

   Synonyms: herrumbre, orín, óxido

• “moho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28