momo

See also: Momo, mómo, mòmò, and момо

English

Etymology

From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo).

Noun

momo (plural momos)

1. A type of Tibetan, Ladakhi and Nepali dumpling made with a simple flour and water dough.
   • 2007 July 1, “Far East of the U.N.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Many dishes show a direct influence of China or India; for example, momos, or Tibetan dumplings, look like Chinese pot-stickers.

Translations

type of dumpling

• Belarusian: мо́ма (móma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo)

• Dutch: momo
• Dzongkha: མོ་མོ (mo mo)
• Finnish: momo, momo-nyytti
• French: momo (fr)
• German: Momo
• Hindi: मोमो m (momo)
• Hungarian: momo
• Japanese: モモ (momo)
• Kyrgyz: момо (momo)

• Nepali: मोःमो (moḥmo), मोमो (momo), मःम (maḥma), मम (mama), मोःमोः (moḥmoḥ), मोमोः (momoḥ), मःमः (maḥmaḥ), ममः (mamaḥ)
• Polish: momo (pl)
• Portuguese: momo (pt) m
• Russian: мо́мо (mómo)
• Spanish: momo
• Swedish: momos
• Thai: โมโม (mo-mo)
• Tibetan: མོག་མོག (mog mog)
• Turkish: momo
• Ukrainian: момо (momo)

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Adangme

Adverb

momo

1. already

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Aiwoo

Verb

momo

1. to chew (in order to swallow)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

See also

• mabe

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Hopi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

momo (plural momòot)

1. bee

Derived terms

• Momo
• momohepto
• Momokatsina
• momosavìipi
• momospala
• momotsìipu
• momòohepto
• momòoki
• momòotsama

 

References

• Albert, Roy; Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 40
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 244

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Japanese

Romanization

momo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もも

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Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit माम (māma, “uncle”).

Noun

momo m

1. (family) maternal uncle

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎^[2], pages 13-36

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Maori

Noun

momo

1. a type, a kind, a species, a breed, a variety, a race, a genre

Further reading

• momo entry at the online Māori Dictionary

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Portuguese

Noun

momo m (plural momos)

1. King Momo (character representing the king of carnival in Latin America)
2. momo

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain:

• from Vulgar Latin *mōmus, from Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos, “god of satire and mockery”), from μῶμος (mômos);
• from an imitative Proto-Germanic root, whence Dutch mom (“mask”), German Mumme (“mask”) - see mummer.

Cognate to Portuguese momo, Aragonese momo, Catalan mom, French momon (“mask”).

Noun

momo m (plural momos)

1. funny face; silly face

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Mandarin 魔 (mó, “demon”).

Noun

momo

1. monster, ghost