تمو

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *tamu (“hell”) ultimately borrowed from Sogdian 𐽂𐼺𐼴 (tmw, “hell”) from Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHas (“darkness”).

Cognate with Turkish tamu, Uzbek tamugʻ and Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq).

Noun

تَمُو (tamū)

1. (religion) hell

   تَمُو قَبُغِنْ اَجارْ تَڤارْ ― Tamū qapuğïn ačār tavār. ― Posessions open the gates of hell.

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 234

Malay

Verb

تمو

1. Jawi spelling of temu

Noun

تمو (plural تمو-تمو or تمو۲, informal 1st possessive تموکو, 2nd possessive تمومو, 3rd possessive تموڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of temu

Ushojo

Etymology

From Shina توم (tom).

Adjective

تمو (tamō)

1. own, self