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mo⋅gul

  [moh-guhl]
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–noun
a bump or mound of hard snow on a ski slope.
Origin:
1960–65; < dial. G; cf. Austrian dial. Mugel small hill

Related forms:
moguled, adjective

Mo⋅gul

  [moh-guhl, -guhl, moh-guhl]
–noun
1. any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. Compare Great Mogul.
2. any of their descendants.
3. (lowercase) an important, powerful, or influential person: a mogul of the movie industry.
4. a Mongol or Mongolian.
5. Railroads. a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and no rear truck.
–adjective
6. of or pertaining to the Moguls or their empire.
Also, Moghul, Mughal (for defs. 1, 2, 6).

Origin:
1580–90; < Pers mughul Mongol
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mo·gul   (mō'gəl)   
n.  A small hard mound or bump on a ski slope.

[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse mūgi, heap.]
Mo·gul   (mō'gəl, mō-gŭl')   
n.  
  1. also Mo·ghul (mŏŏ-gŭl', mō-) or Mu·ghal (mōō-gŭl')
    1. A member of the force that under Baber conquered India in 1526.
    2. A member of the Muslim dynasty founded by Baber that ruled India until 1857.
  2. A Mongol or Mongolian.
  3. mogul A very rich or powerful person; a magnate.

[Persian and Arabic muġul, from Mongolian Moṅgul.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Mogul

Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.]

1. A person of the Mongolian race.

2. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.

Great, or Grand, Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindostan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. --Dryden.

Mogul

Mo*gul"\, n. A great personage; magnate; autocrat.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : mogul
Spanish: magnate,
German: der Mogul,
Japanese: 大立者
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mogul  (1)
"powerful person," 1678, from Great Mogul, Mongol emperor of India after the conquest of 1526, from Pers. and Arabic mughal, mughul, alt. of Mongol (q.v.), the Asiatic people.

mogul  (2)
"elevation on a ski slope," 1961, probably from Scand. (cf. dial. Norw. mugje, fem. muga, "a heap, a mound"), or from southern Ger. dial. mugel in the same sense.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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