mogul

See also: Mogul, mögül, and moʻgʻul

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊɡ(ə)l/, /ˈmoʊɡəl/

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Etymology 1

Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian Subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

   Synonyms: magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

   a Silicon Valley tech mogul

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Translations

a rich or powerful person

• Catalan: magnat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巨头 (zh) (jùtóu), 大亨 (zh) (dàhēng), 大佬 (zh) (dàlǎo)

• Dutch: magnaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: moguli (fi), pohatta (fi)
• French: magnat (fr) m
• German: Mogul (de) m
• Hungarian: mogul (hu)
• Ido: mogul (io)
• Macedonian: мо́гул m (mógul), ма́гнат m (mágnat), магна́т m (magnát)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: potentat (pl) m
• Russian: магна́т (ru) m (magnát)
• Spanish: potentado (es), magnate (es), mogol
• Swedish: mogul (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: магна́т m (mahnát)

Etymology 2

From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. (skiing) A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
2. A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
3. A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.

Derived terms

• mogulist
• mogul skiing

 

Translations

a hump on a skiing piste

• Bulgarian: бабуна f (babuna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: mulda f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kumpare (fi), knööli
• French: bosse (fr)
• German: Buckel (de) m, Mugel (de) m
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: mulda (pl) f
• Russian: буго́р (ru) m (bugór)

Verb

mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle moguling, simple past and past participle moguled)

1. (skiing) To ski over a course of humps or bumps.

Further reading

• mogul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mogul, from Persian مغول (moğul, “Mongol”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoɡul]
• Hyphenation: mo‧gul
• Rhymes: -ul

Noun

mogul (plural mogulok)

1. (historical) Mughal, Moghul (a member of the Mughal dynasty)
2. mogul (a rich and powerful person)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	mogul	mogulok
accusative	mogult	mogulokat
dative	mogulnak	moguloknak
instrumental	mogullal	mogulokkal
causal-final	mogulért	mogulokért
translative	mogullá	mogulokká
terminative	mogulig	mogulokig
essive-formal	mogulként	mogulokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mogulban	mogulokban
superessive	mogulon	mogulokon
adessive	mogulnál	moguloknál
illative	mogulba	mogulokba
sublative	mogulra	mogulokra
allative	mogulhoz	mogulokhoz
elative	mogulból	mogulokból
delative	mogulról	mogulokról
ablative	mogultól	moguloktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	mogulé	moguloké
non-attributive possessive - plural	moguléi	mogulokéi

Possessive forms of mogul
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mogulom	moguljaim
2nd person sing.	mogulod	moguljaid
3rd person sing.	mogulja	moguljai
1st person plural	mogulunk	moguljaink
2nd person plural	mogulotok	moguljaitok
3rd person plural	moguljuk	moguljaik

Derived terms

• nagymogul

Further reading

• mogul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mogul.

Noun

mogul m (plural moguli)

1. mogul

Declension

Declension of mogul

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) mogul	mogulul	(niște) moguli	mogulii
genitive/dative	(unui) mogul	mogulului	(unor) moguli	mogulilor
vocative	mogulule		mogulilor

Swedish

Noun

mogul c

1. a Mughal (member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India from the 16th to the 19th century)
2. a mogul (rich or powerful businessperson, often within the film or media industry)

   filmmogul

   movie mogul

Declension

Declension of mogul

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mogul	moguls
	definite	mogulen	mogulens
plural	indefinite	moguler	mogulers
	definite	mogulerna	mogulernas

Derived terms

• stormogul

See also

• magnat
• mongol

References

• mogul in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mogul in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mogul in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)