مخ

See also: مچ

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *muḫḫ- (“head; brain; marrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muxx/

Noun

مُخّ • (muḵḵ) m (plural أَمْخَاخ (ʔamḵāḵ))

1. (anatomy) cerebrum

Declension

Declension of noun مُخّ (muḵḵ)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مُخّ muḵḵ	الْمُخّ al-muḵḵ	مُخّ muḵḵ
nominative	مُخٌّ muḵḵun	الْمُخُّ al-muḵḵu	مُخُّ muḵḵu
accusative	مُخًّا muḵḵan	الْمُخَّ al-muḵḵa	مُخَّ muḵḵa
genitive	مُخٍّ muḵḵin	الْمُخِّ al-muḵḵi	مُخِّ muḵḵi
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مُخَّيْن muḵḵayn	الْمُخَّيْن al-muḵḵayn	مُخَّيْ muḵḵay
nominative	مُخَّانِ muḵḵāni	الْمُخَّانِ al-muḵḵāni	مُخَّا muḵḵā
accusative	مُخَّيْنِ muḵḵayni	الْمُخَّيْنِ al-muḵḵayni	مُخَّيْ muḵḵay
genitive	مُخَّيْنِ muḵḵayni	الْمُخَّيْنِ al-muḵḵayni	مُخَّيْ muḵḵay
plural	basic broken plural triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَمْخَاخ ʔamḵāḵ	الْأَمْخَاخ al-ʔamḵāḵ	أَمْخَاخ ʔamḵāḵ
nominative	أَمْخَاخٌ ʔamḵāḵun	الْأَمْخَاخُ al-ʔamḵāḵu	أَمْخَاخُ ʔamḵāḵu
accusative	أَمْخَاخًا ʔamḵāḵan	الْأَمْخَاخَ al-ʔamḵāḵa	أَمْخَاخَ ʔamḵāḵa
genitive	أَمْخَاخٍ ʔamḵāḵin	الْأَمْخَاخِ al-ʔamḵāḵi	أَمْخَاخِ ʔamḵāḵi

Descendants

• Egyptian Arabic: مخ (muḵḵ)
• Gulf Arabic: مخ (muḵ)
• Maltese: moħħ
• Moroccan Arabic: مخ (muḵḵ)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: mox

  → Central Kurdish: مۆخ (mox)

• → Persian: مخ (mox)

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مُخّ (muḵḵ).

Noun

مخ • (muḵḵ) m (plural أَمْخَاخ (amḵā́ḵ))

1. (anatomy) brain (“organ”)

   Synonym: دماغ (dimāḡ)

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مُخّ (muḵḵ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muxː/

Noun

مخ • (muḵḵ) m (plural مخاخ (mḵāḵ))

1. (anatomy) brain (“organ”)

   Synonym: دماغ (dmāḡ)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُخّ (muḵḵ, “cerebrum”).

Noun

مخ • (muh) (plural مخاخ or مخخه)

1. bone marrow, the place where new blood cells are produced

   Synonym: ایلیك (ilik)

2. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: بینی (beyni), دماغ (demağ), مغز (mağz)

3. the white fat seen around the eyeball of a fat beast
4. kernel, marrow, pith, core, essence of a thing

   Synonyms: اوز (öz), لب (lubb), مغز (mağz)

Descendants

• Turkish: muh

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “muh”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3276
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مخ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1133
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Medulla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1025
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مخ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4465
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1771

Persian

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”).

Noun

مخ • (mox)

1. (now dialectal, Kazerun, Dashtestan, Bushehr) palm, palm tree

   Synonym: نخل (naxl)

Derived terms

• مخور (moxvar)
• مخستان (moxestân)

South Levantine Arabic

Picture dictionary

مخ

جمجمة

مخ

عين

شفة

منخار

تم

دقن

فك

دان

صدغ

رقبة

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جسم

جسم

Etymology

From Arabic مُخّ (muḵḵ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muxx/, [mʊx]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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Noun

مخّ • (muḵḵ) m (plural مخاخ (mḵāḵ))

1. brain

   Synonym: دماغ (dmāḡ)

2. mind

Southwestern Fars

Noun

مخ (mox)

1. (Kuzarg) palm, palm tree