مهموز

Ottoman Turkish

مهموزلر

Alternative forms

• مهمز (mahmiz), مهمیز (mahmiz)

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مِهْمَاز (mihmāz, “prod, spur”), probably through Persian مهمیز (mahmiz).

Noun

مهموز • (mahmuz)

1. spur, a rigid implement fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse

Derived terms

• خروس مهموزی (horos mahmuzu, “cockspur”)
• مهموزلمق (mahmuzlamak, “to spur”)
• مهموزلو (mahmuzlu, “furnished with spurs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mahmuz
• → Abkhaz: амаҳмыз (amaḥməz)
• → Albanian: mamuz
• → Armenian: մահմուզ (mahmuz)
• → Hungarian: mamuz
• → Macedonian: мамуза (mamuza)
• → Serbo-Croatian: màmuza

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mahmuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3018
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مهموز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1254
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Calcar”, 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 134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مهموز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5059
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahmuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مهمز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2047