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mauve

/mov/

noun, feminine/mov/plural: mauves

mallow

Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

noun, masculine/mov/plural: mauves

mauve

Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

adjective/mov/

mauve

Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

noun, feminine/mov/plural: mauves

mew, gull, seagull

Synonyms: mouette, goéland

Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.