مو

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mu"

Arabic

مُو

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muː/

Noun

مُو • (mū) m

1. meu, baldmoney (Meum athamanticum)

   Synonym: شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ‎ (šibitt barriyy)

Usage notes

Presumably obsolete, as the range of the plant ends southwards to the East in Bulgaria and to the West in Al-Andalus, apocryphically 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

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

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مو”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (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 (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^[1] (in German), volume 70, page 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3

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Chagatai

Particle

مو (mū)

1. used to form interrogatives

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Iraqi Arabic

Etymology 1

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ‎ (mā huwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

Particle

مو (mū)

1. not

   ‏مو مشكلة‎

   mu muškile

   No problem

Etymology 2

From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu/

Particle

مو (mū)

1. used to form interrogatives

   ‏چانوا بالسوق مو ؟‎‎

   chānū bis-sūg mū?

   They were at the market, were they not?

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Mozarabic

Alternative forms

• מו‎ (mew) (Hebrew script)

Etymology

From Latin meus (“my”).

Determiner

مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما‎)

1. my
   • c. 1100, al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :

     مو الحبيب أنفرم ذ مو امار

     mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār

     My beloved is ill with my love.

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North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /mu(ː)/

Particle

مو • (mū)

1. not (negates a noun)

   ‏مو مشكلة‎

   mū miškle

   Not a problem

Usage notes

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

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Pashto

Pronoun

مو • (mō)

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

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Persian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo/

Pronoun

مو • (mo)

1. (dialectal, Mashhad, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) Alternative form of من‎ (man)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /mōy/, “hair”).

Alternative forms

• موی‎ (muy)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /muː(j)/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /muː(j)/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /muː(j)/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /mɵː(j)/

Noun

Dari	مو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мӯ (mü)

مو • (mu) (plural موها‎ (mu-hâ))

1. hair
   • 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, [2]:

     ‏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 garči dar īn bādiya bisyār šitāft
     yak mōy nadānist walī mōy šikāft
     andar dil-i man hazār xuršēd 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 (gêsu)

References

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

Etymology 3

Compare میوه‎ (mêve), مویز‎ (maviz, meviz).

Noun

مو • (mow) (plural موها‎ (mow-hâ))

1. vine

Derived terms

• موستان‎ (movestân)