молва

• мо́ва

Inherited from Old East Slavic мъ́лва (mŭ́lva), from Proto-Slavic *mъ̀lva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *múlˀwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥wH-eh₂, from *mlewH-.[1][2]

мо́лва • (transliteration needed) f inan (related adjective мо́лвный)

1. slander, calumny, aspersion, libel
2. Archaic form of мо́ва (“language; speech; word”).

• Belarusian: малва́ (malvá) (dialectal)

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1999), “молва”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 18 (местце – надзовати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 125

Inherited from Old East Slavic мълва (mŭlva), from Proto-Slavic *mъlva; cognates include Old Church Slavonic млъва (mlŭva, “noise, mourning”), Ukrainian мо́ва (móva, “language”), Belarusian мо́ва (móva, “language”), Polish mowa (“language”), Bulgarian мълва́ (mǎlvá, “rumour”), Czech mluva. Doublet of мо́ва (móva).

• IPA^(key): [mɐɫˈva]

молва́ • (molvá) f inan (genitive молвы́, uncountable)

1. rumour/rumor, talk, hearsay
   • 1849, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Netochka Nezvanova:

     Почти́ всю́ду носи́лась молва́ о его́ неограни́ченном честолю́бии.

     Počtí vsjúdu nosílasʹ molvá o jevó neograníčennom čestoljúbii.

     Almost everywhere floated the rumor of his unbounded ambition.

• молвь f (molvʹ)
• обмо́лвка f (obmólvka)
• недомо́лвка f (nedomólvka)
• перемо́лвка f (peremólvka)
• размо́лвка f (razmólvka)
• помо́лвка f (pomólvka)
• мо́лвить (mólvitʹ)
• безмо́лвный (bezmólvnyj)
  • безмо́лвно (bezmólvno)
• помо́лвленный (pomólvlennyj)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “молва”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress