میمون

See also: ميمون

Ottoman Turkish

میمون

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “monkey”).

Noun

میمون • (meymûn, maymun)

1. monkey, ape, primate, any mammal in the order Primates

   Synonyms: شادی (şadi), قرد (kird)

2. (figuratively) buffoon, fool, one who acts in a ridiculous fashion

Derived terms

• ترس میمون (ters maymun, “variety of Damascus steel”)
• حبش میمونی (habeş maymunu, “baboon”)
• میمون اشتهالو (maymun iştahlı, “capriciously fanciful, unsteady”)
• میمون بالغی (maymun balığı, “angel shark”)
• میمون گبی (maymun gibi, “ridiculous”)
• میمونجق (maymuncuk, “picklock”)
• میمونجی (maymuncu, “monkey man”)
• میمونلق (maymunluk, “quality or nature of a monkey”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: maymun
• → Albanian: majmun
• → Armenian: մեյմուն (meymun)
• → Bulgarian: майму́н (majmún)
• → Greek: μαϊμού (maïmoú)
• → Hungarian: majom
• → Ladino: maymona
• → Macedonian: мајмун (majmun)
• → Romanian: maimuță
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ма̀јмун

  Latin script: màjmun

• → Georgian: მაიმუნი (maimuni)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maymun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3088
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “میمون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میمون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Simia”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1556
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میمون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5079
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maymun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میمون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2056

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maj.muːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.muːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.muːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäj.muːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäj.mun]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mejmuːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.mun]

Readings
Classical reading?	maymūn
Dari reading?	maymūn
Iranian reading?	meymun
Tajik reading?	maymun

Noun

Dari	شادی
Iranian Persian	میمون
Tajik	маймун

میمون • (maymun)

1. monkey, ape

   Synonyms: شادی (šâdi), کپی (kapi)

Descendants

• → Adyghe: маймун (majmun)