مو
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
مُو • (mū) m
- meu, baldmoney (Meum athamanticum)
- Synonym: شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ (šibitt barriyy)
Usage notes edit
Presumably obsolete, as the range of the plant ends southwards to the East in Bulgaria and to the West in Al-Andalus, apocryphically Morocco, and as a learned borrowing only used in medieval pharmacology, found in authors like the Cordoban Maimonides. It is usually, even by the pharmacognosists, called inexactly شِبِتّ (šibitt, “dill”).
Declension edit
References edit
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مو”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 622b
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “مو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 222a
- Löw, Immanuel (1916) “Bemerkungen zu Budge’s „The Syriac Book of Medicines“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[3] (in German), volume 70, pages 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3
Chagatai edit
Particle edit
مو (mū)
- used to form interrogatives
Hijazi Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa). Compare North Levantine Arabic مو (mū) and Iraqi Arabic مو (mū).
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
مو • (mū)
- not
- مو غَرِيب عَلَيَّ. ― mū ḡarīb ʕalayya. ― It's not strange to me.
Iraqi Arabic edit
Etymology 1 edit
From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa).
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
مو (mū)
- not
- مو مشكلة
- mu muškila
- No problem
Etymology 2 edit
From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
مو (mū)
- used to form interrogatives
- چانوا بالسوق مو ؟
- čānaw bis-sūg mū?
- They were at the market, were they not?
Mozarabic edit
Alternative forms edit
- מו (mw) — Hebrew script
Etymology edit
Determiner edit
مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما)
- my
- c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :[1]
- مو الحبيب أنڢرم ذي مو امار
- mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār
- My beloved is ill with my love.
- مو الحبيب أنڢرم ذي مو امار
Notes edit
- Corriente transcribes it as ⟨mw⟩, which he takes to represent a Mozarabic mew.[2]
References edit
- ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79
- ^ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 31
North Levantine Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of ما هو (ma hū, “it is not”), going back to Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa, “it is not”) with the pronoun's final vowel clipped.
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
مو • (mū)
- not (negates a noun)
- مو مشكلة
- mū miškle
- Not a problem
Usage notes edit
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
مو • (mu)
Further reading edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1239b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2017b
Pashto edit
Pronoun edit
مو • (mō)
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
مو • (mo)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /mōy/, “hair”), from Proto-Iranian *mauda- (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Probably from a compound of Proto-Iranian *maw- / *mū- (“bind”) (related to Sanskrit मवते (mavate, “bind, tie, fix”), see there for more) + either Proto-Iranian *dō- (“give”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) or Proto-Iranian *dʰē- (“to place, put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”)).[1]
Alternative forms edit
- موی (muy)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [moː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [muː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mɵ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | mō |
Dari reading? | mō, mū |
Iranian reading? | mu |
Tajik reading? | mü |
Noun edit
Dari | مو |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | мӯ |
مو • (mu) (plural موها (mu-hâ))
- hair
- 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, [6]:
- دل گرچه در این بادیه بسیار شتافت
یک موی ندانست ولی موی شکافت
اندر دل من هزار خورشید بتافت
آخر به کمال ذرهای راه نیافت- dil garči dar în bâdiya bisyâr šitâft
yak môy nadânist valî môy šikâft
andar dil-i man hazâr xuršêd bitâft
âxar ba kamâl zarra-ê râh nayâft - Although [this] heart hastened in this desert so much,
A hair was not aware, but passed through hairs.
A thousand of suns shined inside my heart
At the end, it did not reach the smallest bit of excellence.
- dil garči dar în bâdiya bisyâr šitâft
- Synonym: گیسو (gêsu)
- 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, [6]:
References edit
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mōy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
Etymology 3 edit
From Proto-Iranian *mádu (“honey, wine”), as wine grapes are famously grown on vines.[2] Compare میوه (mêve, “fruit”), مویز (maviz, meviz, “raisins”). Akin to Judeo-Isfahani [script needed] (mew, “vine”).
Noun edit
مو • (mow) (plural موها (mow-hâ))
Derived terms edit
- موستان (movestân)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 283
- ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 119-20