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: म:म (ma:ma), मम (mama)
• 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

Noun

momo

1. bee

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Japanese

Romanization

momo

1. Rōmaji transcription of もも

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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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Tagalog

Etymology

From Mandarin 魔 (mó, “demon”).

Noun

momo

1. monster, ghost