مو

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مُو

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muː/

Noun

مُو • (mū) m

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

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Singular	singular invariable
Singular	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

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Declension of noun 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 (in German), volume 70, pages 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3

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Particle

مو (mū)

used to form interrogatives

Etymology

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa). Compare North Levantine Arabic مو (mū) and Iraqi Arabic مو (mū).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muː/

Particle

مو • (mū)

not
مو غَرِيب عَلَيَّ. ― mū ḡarīb ʕalayya. ― It's not strange to me.

Etymology 1

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mu/

Particle

مو (mū)

not
مو مشكلة
mu muškila
No problem

Etymology 2

From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mu/

Particle

مو (mū)

used to form interrogatives
چانوا بالسوق مو ؟
čānaw bis-sūg mū?
They were at the market, were they not?

Alternative forms

מו (mw) — Hebrew script

Etymology

From Latin meus (“my”).

Determiner

مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما)

my
- c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :^[1]
  مو الحبيب أنڢرم ذي مو امار
  mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār
  My beloved is ill with my love.

Notes

Corriente transcribes it as ⟨mw⟩, which he takes to represent a Mozarabic mew.^[2]

References

[1]
Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79
[2]
Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 31

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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)

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).

Etymology

From Persian (mu).

Noun

مو • (mu)

hair

Pronoun

مو • (mō)

our (affixed form)
your (affixed form, possessive of تاسو)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mo/

Pronoun

مو • (mo)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /⁠mōy⁠/, “hair”), from Proto-Iranian *mauda- (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Probably from a compound of Proto-Iranian *maw- / *mū- (“bind”) (related to Sanskrit मवते (mavate, “bind, tie, fix”), see there for more) + either Proto-Iranian *dō- (“give”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) or Proto-Iranian *dʰē- (“to place, put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”)).^[1]

Alternative forms

موی (muy)
مین (min) (dialectal)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [moː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [moː], [muː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [moː], [muː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mʊː], [mu]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [muː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɵ]

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Readings
Classical reading^?	mō
Dari reading^?	mō, mū
Iranian reading^?	mu
Tajik reading^?	mü

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Noun

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Iranian Persian	مو
Dari	مو
Tajik	мӯ

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مو • (mu) (plural موها (mu-hâ))

hair
- 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, :
  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 în bâdiya bisyâr šitâft
  yak môy nadânist valî môy šikâft
  andar dil-i man hazâr xuršêd bitâft
  âxar ba kamâl zarra-ê râh nayâft
  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

From Proto-Iranian *mádu (“honey, wine”), as wine grapes are famously grown on vines.^[2] Compare (mêve, “fruit”), (maviz, meviz, “raisins”). Akin to Judeo-Isfahani [script needed] (mew, “vine”).

Noun

مو • (mow) (plural موها (mow-hâ))

vine
Synonyms: میو (mīv), میوانه (mīvāne), رز (raz), تاک (tāk)

Derived terms

موستان (movestân)

Descendants

→ Armenian: մով (mov)
→ Azerbaijani: möv, mev, möy

References

[1]
Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 283
[2]
Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 119-20

[1] [1]
Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79

[2] [2]
Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 31

[3] [1]
Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 283

[4] [2]
Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 119-20

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