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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃/馍馍 (mómo).
Noun[edit]
momo (plural momos)
- 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[edit]
type of dumpling
Adangme[edit]
Adverb[edit]
momo
Aiwoo[edit]
Verb[edit]
momo
- to chew (in order to swallow)
References[edit]
- 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[edit]
Hopi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
momo (plural momòot)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
momo
Kholosi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit माम (māma, “uncle”).
Noun[edit]
momo m
- (family) maternal uncle
References[edit]
- 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
Maori[edit]
Noun[edit]
momo
Further reading[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
momo m (plural momos)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
momo m (plural momos)
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 魔 (mó, “demon”).
Noun[edit]
momo
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