مهموز

مهموز

Ottoman Turkish

مهموزلر

Alternative forms

• مهمز‎ (mahmiz), مهمیز‎ (mahmiz)

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مِهْمَاز‎ (mihmāz, “prod, spur”), probably through Persian مهمیز‎ (mahmiz).

Noun

مهموز • (mahmuz)

1. spur, a rigid implement fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse

Derived terms

• خروس مهموزی‎ (horos mahmuzu, “cockspur”)
• مهموزلمق‎ (mahmuzlamak, “to spur”)
• مهموزلو‎ (mahmuzlu, “furnished with spurs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mahmuz
• → Albanian: mamuz
• → Armenian: մահմուզ (mahmuz)
• → Hungarian: mamuz
• → Macedonian: мамуза (mamuza)
• → Serbo-Croatian: màmuza

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mahmuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3018
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مهموز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1254
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Calcar”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 134
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مهموز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5059
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mahmuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مهمز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2046