میمون

See also: ميمون

Ottoman Turkish

میمون

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon, mandrill”).

Noun

میمون • (meymûn or maymun) (definite accusative میمونی (meymûnu, maymunu), plural میمونلر (meymûnlar, maymunlar))

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

   Synonyms: شادی (şadi), قرد (kird)

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

Adjective

میمون • (meymûn or maymun)

1. lucky, fortunate, auspicious, favourable, propitious, of good omen, indicating future success

   Synonyms: اوغورلو (uğurlu), بختلی (bahtlı), قوتلو (kutlu)

Derived terms

• بزكلو میمون (bezekli maymun, “ridiculous appearance”)
• ترس میمون (ters maymun, “variety of Damascus steel”)
• حبش میمونی (habeş maymunu, “baboon”)
• میمون اشتهالو (maymun iştahlı, “capriciously fanciful, temperamental”)
• میمون اویونی (maymun oyunu, “hoax, con”)
• میمون بالغی (maymun balığı, “angel shark”)
• میمون كبی (maymun gibi, “ridiculous”)
• میمون یوزلو (maymun yüzlü, “grimacing”)
• میمونجق (maymuncuk, “picklock”)
• میمونجی (maymuncu, “monkey man”)
• میمونلق (maymunluk, “quality or nature of a monkey”)
• هند میمونی (hind maymunu, “sapajou”)

Descendants

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

  Cyrillic script: ма̀јмун

  Latin script: màjmun

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “میمون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 807
• 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] (in French), 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

Etymology tree

Arabic يَمَنَ (yamana)der.

Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn)bor.

Persian میمون

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn), from يَمَنَ (yamana).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /maj.ˈmuːn/

 

• (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): [mej.muːn]

• (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 • (maymūn / meymun) (plural میمون‌ها (maymūn-hā / meymun-hâ), Tajik spelling маймун)

1. monkey, ape

   Synonyms: شادی (šâdi), کپی (kapi), بوزینه (buzine)

Descendants

• → Adyghe: маймун (majmun)