"mozzarella" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɒt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/ [UK], /mɑt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/ [US], /mʌt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/ [US], /mut.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mozzarella.wav Forms: mozzarellas [plural], mozzarelle [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlə Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare. The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|mozzarella}} Italian mozzarella, {{der|en|la|mutilare}} Latin mutilare Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|mozzarelle}} mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)
  1. Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (soft Italian cheese): موزَاريلَّا (mōtzarellā) [feminine] (Arabic), موتزاريلا (motzarélla) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), мацарэ́ла (macaréla) [feminine] (Belarusian), မိုးဇက် (mui:jak) (Burmese), 水牛芝士 (Chinese Cantonese), 馬蘇里拉 (Chinese Mandarin), 马苏里拉 (mǎsūlǐlā) (Chinese Mandarin), mozzarella [feminine] (Czech), mozzarella [masculine] (Dutch), mocarelo (Esperanto), mozzarella (Finnish), mozzarelle [feminine] (French), mozzarella [feminine] (French), Mozzarella [masculine] (German), μοτσαρέλα (motsaréla) [feminine] (Greek), mozzarella [feminine] (Italian), モッツァレラ (mottsarera) (Japanese), モツァレラ (motsarera) (Japanese), モザレラ (mozarera) (Japanese), モッツァレッラ (mottsarerra) (Japanese), 모차렐라 (mocharella) (Korean), моцаре́ла f du (mocaréla) (Macedonian), mozzarella [feminine] (Maltese), मोजारेला (mojārelā) (Marathi), mozzarella [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mozzarella [feminine] (Polish), muçarela [feminine] (Portuguese), mozarela [feminine] (Portuguese), mussarela [feminine] (Portuguese), моцаре́лла (mocarɛ́lla) [feminine] (Russian), mozzarella [feminine] (Spanish), mozzarella [common-gender] (Swedish), моззарелла (mozzarella) (Tajik)
    Sense id: en-mozzarella-en-noun-eyvExF4C Categories (other): Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'soft Italian cheese': 100 0
  2. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money. Tags: slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Money, Cheeses Synonyms: money Translations (food-related slang term for money): hillo (Finnish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mozzarella stick

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:",
          "text": "Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad",
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          "ref": "2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music):",
          "text": "Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller",
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          "ref": "2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire:",
          "text": "I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank",
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        "Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc."
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          "ref": "2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:",
          "text": "Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music):",
          "text": "Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music):",
          "text": "Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire:",
          "text": "I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank",
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        "Money."
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        "US"
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      "ipa": "/mut.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/",
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        "US"
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      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "موزَاريلَّا"
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      "roman": "motzarélla",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
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      "roman": "macaréla",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "my",
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      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "မိုးဇက်"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "水牛芝士"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "馬蘇里拉"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mǎsūlǐlā",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "马苏里拉"
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      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mozzarella"
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      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "mocarelo"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "motsaréla",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μοτσαρέλα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mottsarera",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "モッツァレラ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "motsarera",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "モツァレラ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mozarera",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "モザレラ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mottsarerra",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "モッツァレッラ"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mocharella",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "모차렐라"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "mocaréla",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "моцаре́ла f du"
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      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "mojārelā",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "मोजारेला"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muçarela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozarela"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mussarela"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mocarɛ́lla",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "моцаре́лла"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mozzarella"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "mozzarella"
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    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mozzarella",
      "sense": "soft Italian cheese",
      "word": "моззарелла"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "food-related slang term for money",
      "word": "hillo"
    }
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    "Bay Area",
    "hip-hop",
    "mozzarella"
  ],
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}

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