mulk

From Latvian muļķis, muļķe (“idiot, fool”). Originally, the word only existed in the Mulgi dialect, with the meaning of "fool", but later spread to other dialects and became an exonym.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmulʲk/

mulk (genitive mulgi, partitive mulki)

1. a person from Mulgimaa (a traditional region in Southern Estonia, located south of the city of Viljandi)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

From Arabic مُلْك‎ (mulk).

mulk (plural mulklar)

1. property, belongings

mulk

1. Alternative form of mulke
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

     To our pleoughès an mulk-pylès till a neeshte holy die.

     To our ploughs and our milk-pails till the next holiday.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 96