mamux

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Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Armenian մամուխ (mamux, “sloe”).[1][2] Boretzky and Igla (1994) compared it with Persian مهمیز (mahmiz) and Turkish mahmūz (“spur, goad”) without knowing about the Armenian word.[3]

Noun[edit]

mamux f (nominative plural mamuxa)

  1. sloe[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert (2012) Studien zum Wortschatz des Romani (in German), Faber, page 226
  2. ^ Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 11–12
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mamúx”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175a
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e mamux(t), -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 233ab

Vlax Romani[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Romani mamux.

Noun[edit]

mamux f

  1. (Gurbet, Kalderaš) sloe[1][2]
  2. (Bosnian Gurbet) vagina[1][3]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mamux” in Gurbet Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
  2. ^ “mamux” in Kalderaš Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
  3. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mamúx”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175a
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