• Albanian: nishan
• Bosnian: mladež
• Bulgarian: бенка (benka)
• Catalan: piga
• Croatian: madež
• Danish: modermærke g Danish
• Dutch: moedervlek
• Finnish: luomi, syntymämerkki
• French: grain de beauté, nævus
• German: Muttermal
• Greek: ελιά
• Hungarian: anyajegy
• Interlingua: nevo
• Isthmus Zapotec: biuyaa
• Italian: nevo
• Japanese: ほくろ
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خاڵ

• Latin: naevus
• Norwegian: føflekk
• Polish: znamię , pieprzyk
• Portuguese: pinta , sinal , mancha , marca de nascença
• Russian: родинка (ródinka) , родимое пятно (rodímoje p'atnó)
• Sardinian (Campidanese): neu
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: младеж

  Roman: mladež

• Slovak: materske znamienko
• Spanish: marca de nacimiento , lunar
• Telugu: పుట్టుమచ్చ (puTTumaccha)

• Albanian: urith
• Basque: sator
• Belarusian: крот
• Bosnian: krtica
• Breton: goz g Breton
• Bulgarian: къртица (kǎrtitsa)
• Catalan: talp
• Cherokee: ᏘᏁᏆ (tinekwa)
• Croatian: krtica
• Czech: krt; krtek
• Danish: muldvarp g Danish
• Dutch: mol
• Esperanto: talpo
• Estonian: mutt
• Faroese: moldvørpa
• Finnish: kontiainen, maamyyrä
• French: taupe
• Friulian: farc
• Galician: toupa , toupeira
• German: Maulwurf
• Greek: τυφλοπόντικας, ασπάλακας
• Hungarian: vakond
• Icelandic: moldvarpa
• Interlingua: talpa
• Irish: caochán
• Italian: talpa
• Japanese: モグラ
• Korean: 두더지 (dudeoji)
• Ladin: talpina
• Latin: talpa
• Latvian: kurmis g Latvian
• Lithuanian: kurmis g Lithuanian
• Lower Sorbian: kšet
• Macedonian: крт (krt)
• Maltese: talpa
• Mingo: tekaˀnyakáíteˀ
• Mongolian: мэнгэ (menge)
• Norwegian: moldvarp
• Occitan: talpa
• Ojibwe: nenaapaajinikesi
• Polish: kret
• Portuguese: toupeira
• Romanian: cârtiţă , aluniţă
• Romansh: talpa
• Romany: balo-puviako , bali-puviaki
• Russian: крот
• Sami: eanamuolddat
• Sardinian: talpa (var: topi, tarpa)
• Scottish Gaelic: dallag g Scottish Gaelic
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: кртица

  Roman: krtica

• Slovak: vychuchol
• Slovene: krt
• Spanish: topo
• Swedish: mullvad
• Turkish: köstebek
• Ukrainian: кріт (krit)
• Upper Sorbian: knot
• Welsh: gwadd ; twrch daear
• West Frisian: mol

• Finnish: maamyyrärotta, sokkohiiri

Etymology 3

French môle

Noun

1. In the context of "Nautical": A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.

   A structure with a breakwater on one side, and a cargo handling facility on the other.

2. A haven or harbour, protected with a breakwater.

Translations

Etymology 4

German Mol

Noun

1. In the context of "chemistry|physics": In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilograms of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number

Translations

Etymology 5

Latin mola

Noun

1. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

Etymology 6

Spanish, From molli

Noun

1. A sauce containing chocolate and used in cooking of Mexico and neighboring Central America.

Translations

References

French

Noun

fr-noun f

1. In the context of "chemistry|physics": Mole.

Italian

Noun

1. mole

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Latin mollis

Adjective

mole

1. soft

Etymology 2

Latin moles

Noun

mole

1. mass

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin mollis; cognate with muelle

Adjective

1. soft, mild

Synonyms

• muelle

Etymology 2

From Latin moles

Noun

1. large size or quantity
2. massiness

Etymology 3

From mulli

Noun

1. a type of stew

Mole may refer to:

• Mole (animal) or mouldywarp, any of the burrowing insectivorous mammals in the family Talpidae, with short velvety fur and enlarged front limbs; the original burrowing mole
• Golden mole, any of the burrowing insectivorous mammals in the family Chrysochloridae, not closely related to true moles
• Mole-rats, rodents of several different families which live underground like moles
• Marsupial mole, a mole-like marsupial
• Mole cricket, a mole-like cricket in the family Gryllotalpidae
• Mole skink (Eumeces egregius), a burrowing lizard
• Mole salamander, a burrowing salamander in the family Ambystomatidae
• Molehill (or mole-hill), a conical pile of soil pushed up at intervals by moles or other burrowing animals when digging burrows, especially beneath grassland or lawns
• Moleskin, originally the skin of a mole, but later a heavy, soft, durable cotton fabric, or clothing made from this
• Mole plant or caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris), a plant said to keep away moles
• Mole plough or subsoiler, a deep plough for cutting buried drainage channels under wet farmland, or breaking up compacted soil
• Rivers
  • River Mole, Surrey, part of whose course runs underground in dry weather
  • River Mole, Bedfordshire, a river in Bedfordshire
  • River Mole, Devon, a river in Devon
• Mole (espionage), a spy buried secretly within an organization or country
• Mole, a tunnel boring machine
• Mole People, people supposed in urban legend to live in organised societies in urban tunnel systems
• Whac-A-Mole, a mechanical arcade game in which model moles pop up out of holes and must be hit with a mallet

Mole may also refer to:

• Mole (skin marking) or melanocytic nevus, a small, sometimes raised area of skin, usually with darker pigment
• Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a particular substance
• Mole Day, an unofficial holiday, its date and time derived from the number of molecules in a chemical mole
• Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chilli peppers and other spices, including chocolate
• Mole (architecture), a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole wrench, a generic term in the UK for vice-grips or lock-jaw pliers, named after a trade name for such tools
• Hydatidiform mole, an abnormal form of pregnancy, where the uterus contains an anomalous growth instead of a viable embryo
• Type 33 Mole aircraft, the Beriev Be-8
• Mole or Mole-Richardson, a stage lighting instrument and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Maria-mole, a dessert popular in Brazil, similar to a marshmallow
• Mole Valley, a local government district in the valley of the River Mole, Surrey, England
• Mole Creek, Tasmania, a town in northern Tasmania, Australia
• La Môle, a commune of the Var Département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région of France
• Mole Antonelliana, a landmark in Turin
• North Mole Lighthouse, a lighthouse at Fremantle, Western Australia
• Chris Mole (Christopher David Mole, born 1958), UK Labour Member of Parliament
• Jamie Mole (born 1988), an English professional footballer
• Miff Mole, (Irving Milfred Mole, 1898–1961), American jazz trombonist and band leader
• The Mole (MC/producer) (Jonah Mociun), underground hip hop personality
• Mole, an anthropomorphised animal mole, a main character in the children's novel Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Mole, a reality television series
• The Mole (South Park), a psychotic French character from the animated series South Park
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), an animated character
• Matching Mole, UK progressive rock band
• Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• The Mole, a timid fictional character appearing in three of the fantasy novels from Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• The Mole, a character from cartoon series Happy Tree Friends: see List of Happy Tree Friends characters: The Mole
• The Mole Man, a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Molemen, a trio of Hip Hop producers from Chicago, Illinois
• Mole Mania, a video game for the original Game Boy
• Monty Mole, a video game character
• Mole Listening Pearls, a German record label

See also

• List of fictional moles
• Molar
• Mol
• Mole Men (disambiguation page)
• Moll

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