Etymograph

English

MPLA

MPLA comes from Portuguese Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola.

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentMovimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1976MPLA

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Portuguesec. 1500–presentMovimento Popular de Libertação de Angola
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1976MPLA

Earliest quotation: 1976, Anarchy in the U.K.: “Is this the MPLA / Or is this the…”

Today it means

name Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Portuguese Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola / MPLA