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”)
• موم دل (mum dil, “soft-hearted”)
• موم مقصی (mum makası, “candle snuffer”)
• مومجی (mumcu, “maker or seller of candles”)
• مومخانه (mumhane, “manufactory of candles”)
• موملو (mumlu, “prepared with wax”)
• 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
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “موم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 469b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, columns 5037–5038
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2037

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).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [moːm], [muːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [muːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [muːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [muːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mum]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [muːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mum]

Readings
Classical reading?	mōm, mūm
Dari reading?	mūm
Iranian reading?	mum
Tajik reading?	mum

Noun

Dari	موم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мум

موم • (mum)

1. wax
2. candle

Derived terms

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

Descendants

Descendants

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

  Hindi: मोम (mom)

  Urdu: موم (mom)

• → Ottoman Turkish: موم (mûm)

  > Turkish: mum (inherited)

• → Turkmen: mum
• → Kyrgyz: мом (mom)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੋਮ (mom)

  Shahmukhi script: موم (mom)

• → Romani: mom
• → Uyghur: موم (mom)
• → Uzbek: mum

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian موم (môm).

Noun

موم • (mom) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੋਮ)

1. beeswax, wax
2. tallow

Further reading

• “موم”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “موم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian موم (mōm, mūm). Compare Bengali মোম (mōm), Punjabi موم (mom).

Noun

موم • (mom) f (Hindi spelling मोम)

1. wax

Uyghur

Etymology

From Persian موم (mum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mom/

Noun

موم • (mom) (plural موملار (momlar))

1. wax

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN