μούσμουλο

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μούσπουλον (moúspoulon), from μέσπουλον (méspoulon), from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon).

Noun

μούσμουλο • (moúsmoulo) n (plural μούσμουλα)

1. loquat (fruit)

Declension

Declension of μούσμουλο

	singular	plural
nominative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •
genitive	μούσμουλου •	μούσμουλων •
accusative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •
vocative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •

Related terms

• μουσμουλιά f (mousmouliá, “loquat tree”)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: مشمله (muşmula), موشمله (muşmula), موشموله (muşmula)
  • Turkish: muşmula
  • → Albanian: mushmullë, mushmollë, mushmulla, mushmolla
  • → Arabic: مَشْمَلَة (mašmala), بَشْمَلَة (bašmala)
  • → Armenian: մուշմուլա (mušmula), մշմոլա (mšmola)
  • → Aromanian: mushmulã
  • → Azerbaijani: muşmula
  • → Bulgarian: му́шмула (múšmula), мо́шмула (móšmula)
  • → Crimean Tatar: muşmula
    • → Belarusian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
    • → Russian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
    • → Ukrainian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
  • → Georgian: მუშმულა (mušmula), მუშმალა (mušmala)
  • → Laz: მუშმულლა (muşmulla)
  • → Macedonian: мушмула (mušmula)
  • → Megleno-Romanian: mușmul
  • → Romanian: mușmulă, mușmul, moșmol, moșmon, moșmulă, moșmoală, moșmoană
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: му̀шмула
    • Latin script: mùšmula

References

• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 51–52
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 246
• Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 254

Further reading

• μούσμουλο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el