مخمور

مخمور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَخْمُور‎‎ (maḵmūr, “intoxicated”), from Arabic خَمْر‎‎ (ḵamr, “wine”).

Noun

مخمور • (mahmur) (comparative دخی مخمور (dahı mahmur), superlative اڭ مخمور‎ (eñ mahmur))

1. drunk, intoxicated, in a state of stupor

   Synonym: سرخوش‎ (sarhoş)

2. drowsy, heavy with sleepiness
3. languorous, lacking vitality

Derived terms

• مخمور چیچگى‎‎ (mahmur çiçeği, “crocus flower”, literally “drowsy flower”)
• مخمورلق‎‎ (mahmurluk, “hangover”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mahmur (“drunk, drowsy, languorous”, adjective)

• Turkish: mahmurlaşmak (“to become drowsy”, verb)

• Turkish: mahmurlaşma (“state of drowsiness”, noun)

• → Armenian: մահմուռ (mahmuṙ), մախմուռ (maxmuṙ)
• ⇒ Bulgarian: махму́рен (mahmúren, “sleepy following intoxication”, adjective)
• ⇒ Bulgarian: махмурли́я (mahmurlíja, “hungover, drowsy”, adjective)
• ⇒ Greek: μαχμουρλής (machmourlís, “half-awake, drowsy”, adjective), see μαχμουρλής at the Greek wiktionary

• ⇒ Greek: μαχμουρλίδικος (machmourlídikos, “relating to drowsiness, languishing”, adjective)
• ⇒ Greek: μαχμούρικα (machmoúrika, “languidly”, adverb)

• ⇒ Hungarian: mámoros (“drunk, rapturous, ecstatic”, adjective)

• ⇒ Hungarian: mámor (“stupor, ecstasy”, noun) (back-formation)

• → Romanian: mahmur n (“hangover”)
• ⇒ Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̏мӯран (“drunk, drowsy”)

  Latin: mȁmūran