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مُو

Etymology

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    Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    مُو • (mū) m

    1. meu, baldmoney (Meum athamanticum)
      Synonym: شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ (šibitt barriyy)

    Usage notes

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    Presumably obsolete, as the range of the plant ends southwards to the East in Bulgaria and to the West in Al-Andalus, apocryphally Morocco, and as a learned borrowing only used in medieval pharmacology, found in authors like the Cordoban Maimonides. It is usually, even by the pharmacognosists, called inexactly شِبِتّ (šibitt, “dill”).

    Declension

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    Declension of noun مُو (mū)
    singular singular invariable
    indefinite definite construct
    informal مُو
    mū     		الْمُو
    al-mū     		مُو
    mū
    nominative مُو
    mū     		الْمُو
    al-mū     		مُو
    mū
    accusative مُو
    mū     		الْمُو
    al-mū     		مُو
    mū
    genitive مُو
    mū     		الْمُو
    al-mū     		مُو
    mū

    References

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    • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مو”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 622b
    • Freytag, Georg (1837), “مو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 222a
    • Löw, Immanuel (1916), “Bemerkungen zu Budge’s „The Syriac Book of Medicines“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎[3] (in German), volume 70, pages 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3

    Chagatai

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    Particle

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    مو • (mw /mū/)

    1. used to form interrogatives

    Hijazi Arabic

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    Etymology

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    From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa). Compare North Levantine Arabic مو (mū) and Iraqi Arabic مو (mū).

    Pronunciation

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    Particle

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    مو • (mū)

    1. not
      مو غريب عليّ. ― mū ḡarīb ʕalayy. ― It's not strange to me.

    Iraqi Arabic

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    Etymology 1

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    From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa).

    Pronunciation

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    Particle

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    مو (mū)

    1. not
      مو مشكلة ― mu muškila ― No problem

    Etymology 2

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    From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.

    Pronunciation

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    Particle

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    مو (mū)

    1. used to form interrogatives
      چانوا بالسوق مو ؟ ― čānaw bis-sūg mū? ― They were at the market, were they not?

    Mozarabic

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    Alternative forms

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    • מו (mw) — Hebrew script

    Etymology

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    From Latin meus (“my”).

    Determiner

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    مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما)

    1. my
      • c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8:[1]
        مو الحبيب أنڢرم ذي مو امار
        mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār
        My beloved is ill with my love.

    Notes

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    • Corriente transcribes it as ⟨mw⟩, which he takes to represent a Mozarabic mew.[2]

    References

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    1. ^ Jones, Alan (1988), Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79
    2. ^ Corriente, F. (1993), “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 31

    North Levantine Arabic

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    Etymology

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    Contraction of ما هو (ma hū, “it is not”), going back to Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa, “it is not”) with the pronoun's final vowel clipped.

    Pronunciation

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    Particle

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    مو • (mū)

    1. not (negates a noun)
      مو مشكلة ― mū miškle ― Not a problem

    Usage notes

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    • Overwhelmingly associated with Syrian varieties. Lebanese usage tends toward مش (miš, muš) or toward displacing both options with ما (mā).

    Ottoman Turkish

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    Etymology

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    From Persian مو (mu).

    Noun

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    مو • (mu)

    1. hair

    Further reading

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    Pashto

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    Pronoun

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    مو • (mō)

    1. our (affixed form)
    2. your (affixed form, possessive of تاسو)

    Persian

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    Etymology 1

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    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Dari reading? mu
    Iranian reading? mo

    Pronoun

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    مو • (mu / mo)

    1. (Mashhad, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan, Ghazni, Maidan, Wardak) dialectal form of من (man)

    Etymology 2

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      Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /⁠mōy⁠/, “hair”), from Proto-Iranian *mauda- (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Probably from a compound of Proto-Iranian *maw- / *mū- (“bind”) (related to Sanskrit मवते (mavate, “bind, tie, fix”), see there for more) + either Proto-Iranian *dō- (“give”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) or Proto-Iranian *dʰē- (“to place, put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”)).[1]

      Alternative forms

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      Pronunciation

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      Readings
      Classical reading? mō
      Dari reading? mō, mū
      Iranian reading? mu
      Tajik reading? mü

      Noun

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      مو • (mō, mū / mu) (plural موها (mō-hā, mū-hā / mu-hâ), Tajik spelling мӯ)

      1. hair
        • 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, [6]:
          دل گرچه در این بادیه بسیار شتافت
          یک موی ندانست ولی موی شکافت
          اندر دل من هزار خورشید بتافت
          آخر به کمال ذره‌ای راه نیافت
          dil garča dar ēn bādiya bisyār šitāft
          yak mōy nadānist valī mōy šikāft
          andar dil-i man hazār xwaršēd bitāft
          āxar ba kamāl zarra-ē rāh nayāft
          Although [this] heart hastened in this desert so much,
          A hair was not aware, but passed through hairs.
          A thousand of suns shined inside my heart
          At the end, it did not reach the smallest bit of excellence.
        Synonym: گیسو (gēsō / gisu)
      Descendants
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      • Judeo-Tat: muj
      • → Chagatai: موی (mwy /⁠mōy⁠/), مو (mw /⁠⁠mō⁠⁠/)

      References

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      • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “mōy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56

      Etymology 3

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        Inherited from Proto-Iranian *mádu (“honey, wine”), as wine grapes are famously grown on vines.[2] Compare میوه (mēwa / mive, “fruit”), مویز (mawīz / maviz, miwīz / meviz, “raisin”). Akin to Judeo-Isfahani [script needed] (mew, “vine”).

        Noun

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        مو • (maw / mov) (plural موها (maw-hā / mov-hâ), Tajik spelling мав)

        1. vine
          Synonyms: میو (miyō / miyu), میوانه (mīwāna / mivâne), رر (rar), تاک (tāk / tâk)
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        References

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        1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 283
        2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 119-20
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