مو

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).

• IPA^(key): /muː/

مُو • (mū) m

1. meu, baldmoney (Meum athamanticum)

   Synonym: شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ‎ (šibitt barriyy)

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”).

• 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, page 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3

مو (mū)

1. used to form interrogatives

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ‎ (mā huwa).

• IPA^(key): /mu/

مو (mū)

1. not

   ‏مو مشكلة‎

   mu muškile

   No problem

From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.

• IPA^(key): /mu/

مو (mū)

1. used to form interrogatives

   ‏چانوا بالسوق مو ؟‎‎

   chānū bis-sūg mū?

   They were at the market, were they not?

• מו‎ (mw) (Hebrew script)

From Latin meus (“my”).

مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما‎)

1. my
   • c. 1100, al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :[1]

     مو الحبيب أنفرم ذ مو امار

     mū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amār

     My beloved is ill with my love.

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /mu(ː)/

مو • (mū)

1. not (negates a noun)

   ‏مو مشكلة‎

   mū miškle

   Not a problem

• Overwhelmingly associated with Syrian varieties. Lebanese usage tends toward مش‎ (miš, muš) or toward displacing both options with ما‎ (mā).

From Persian مو‎ (mu).

مو • (mu)

1. hair

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1239b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2017b

مو • (mō)

1. our (affixed form)
2. your (affixed form, possessive of تاسو)

• IPA^(key): /mo/

مو • (mo)

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

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /mōy/, “hair”).

• موی‎ (muy)

مو • (mu) (plural موها‎ (mu-hâ))

1. 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)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “mōy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56

Compare میوه‎ (mêve), مویز‎ (maviz, meviz). Akin to Judeo-Isfahani [script needed] (mew, “vine”).

مو • (mow) (plural موها‎ (mow-hâ))

1. vine

• موستان‎ (movestân)

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