16 March 2015
mogul (1)
[moh-guh l]
noun
1. an important or powerful person
2. a type of steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels
Word Origin
C18: from Mogul
mogul (2)
[moh-guh l]
noun
1. a mound of hard snow on a ski slope
Word Origin
C20: perhaps from South German dialect Mugl
Mogul (3)
[moh-guh l]
noun
1. a member of the Muslim dynasty of Indian emperors established by Baber in 1526 See Great Mogul
2. a Muslim Indian, Mongol, or Mongolian
adjective
3. of or relating to the Moguls or their empire
Word Origin
C16: from Persian mughul Mongol
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Word Origin and History for mogul
n.
“powerful person,” 1670s, from Great Mogul, Mongol emperor of India after the conquest of 1520s, from Persian and Arabic mughal, mughul, alteration of Mongol (q.v.), the Asiatic people.
“elevation on a ski slope,” 1961, probably [Barnhart] from Scandinavian (cf. dialectal Norwegian mugje, fem. muga, “a heap, a mound”), or [OED] from southern German dialect mugel in the same sense.
Examples from the web for mogul
– But the obstacles in the way of the heroic media mogul are especially big.
– The billionaire mogul invites you over to play inside his big, big backyard retreat.
– If that pattern reminds you of any tech mogul of our own time, that’s your business.
Today’s aphorism
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
– Albert Einstein
On this day
16 March 1988 – Iraqi forces under the direction of Saddam Hussein, kill thousands of Kurds in Northern Iraq by unleashing a cocktail of gases, including mustard gas, sarin and cyanide.
16 March 1998 – Rwanda commences mass trials relating to the 1994 genocide of approximately 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutus by Interahamwe militia which had been backed by the Rwandan government.
16 March 2003 – 23 year old, American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, is killed when run over by an Israeli bulldozer which she had tried to stop from demolishing a Palestinian house in Gaza.