موم

موم

Ottoman Turkish

موم

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian موم‎ (mum, “wax; candle”).

Noun

موم • (mum)

1. wax, an oily, water-resistant, semisolid substance

   Synonym: شمع‎ (şemʿ)

2. wax-candle, a candle made of wax

   Synonym: شمع‎ (şemʿ)

3. candle or taper made with any material

Derived terms

• بالق مومی‎ (balık mumu, “spermaceti”)
• بالمومی‎ (balmumu, “beeswax”)
• قالب مومی‎ (kalıb mumu, “mold candle”)
• موم آین‎ (mum ayin, “asphaltum”)
• مومجی‎ (mumcu, “maker or seller of candles”)
• مومخانه‎ (mumhane, “manufactory of candles”)
• موم دل‎ (mum dil, “soft-hearted”)
• موملو‎ (mumlu, “prepared with wax”)
• موم مقصی‎ (mum makası, “candle snuffer”)
• مومی‎ (mumi, “waxed, waxy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mum

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mum”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3302
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “موم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cera”, 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 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “موم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 5037–5038
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “موم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2039

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/*mōm/). Akin to Northern Kurdish mûm (“candle”), Central Kurdish مۆم‎ (mom, “candle”), Southern Kurdish موم‎ (mum, “wax”), and Old Armenian մոմ (mom), an Iranian borrowing.

Further origin uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing from a Semitic language, from Proto-Semitic *māy- (“water, liquid, sap”); compare Akkadian 𒀀 (mū). The final -m could be from a plural suffix (the word being a plurale tantum in some languages) or from reduplication; compare Hebrew מים‎ (mayim).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, Dari, Iranian Persian, Tajik) IPA^(key): /muːm/

Noun

موم • (mum)

1. wax
2. candle

Derived terms

• مومی‎ (mumi)
• مومین‎ (mumin)
• مومیا‎ (mumiyâ)
• مومیایی‎ (mumiyâyi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mum
• → Arabic: مُوم‎ (mūm)
• → Bengali: মোম (mom)
• → Crimean Tatar: mum
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मोम (mom)

  Urdu: موم‎ (mom)

• → Ottoman Turkish: موم‎ (mûm)
  • Turkish: mum
• → Turkmen: mum
• → Kyrgyz: мом (mom)
• → Romani: mom
• → Uzbek: mum

References

1. Alexander Militarev, A complete etymology-based hundred wordlist of Semitic updated: Items 75-100, in the Journal of Language Relationhip[s]; entry 94 water, especially the Afro-Asiatic meaning of sap, liquid substance.