میمون

See also: ميمون‎

Ottoman Turkish

میمون

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون‎ (maymūn, “monkey”).

Noun

میمون • (meymûn, maymun)

monkey, ape, primate, any mammal in the order Primates
Synonyms: شادی‎ (şadi), قرد‎ (kird)
(figuratively) buffoon, fool, one who acts in a ridiculous fashion

Derived terms

ترس میمون‎ (ters maymun, “variety of Damascus steel”)
حبش میمونی‎ (habeş maymunu, “baboon”)
میمون اشتهالو‎ (maymun iştahlı, “capriciously fanciful, unsteady”)
میمون بالغی‎ (maymun balığı, “angel shark”)
میمون گبی‎ (maymun gibi, “ridiculous”)
میمونجق‎ (maymuncuk, “picklock”)
میمونجی‎ (maymuncu, “exhibitor of monkey”)
میمونلق‎ (maymunluk, “quality or nature of a monkey”)

Descendants

Turkish: maymun
→ Albanian: majmun
→ Armenian: մեյմուն (meymun)
→ Bulgarian: майму́н (majmún)
→ Greek: μαϊμού (maïmoú)
→ Hungarian: majom
→ Ladino: maymona
→ Macedonian: мајмун (majmun)
→ Romanian: maimuță
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ма̀јмун

Latin script: màjmun

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “maymun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3088
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “میمون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1257
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Simia”, 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 1556
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “میمون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5079
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “maymun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “میمون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2058

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مَيْمُون‎ (maymūn).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /majmuːn/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /majmuːn/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /mejmuːn/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /majmun/

Noun

Dari	شادی‎
Iranian Persian	میمون
Tajik	маймун (maymun)

میمون • (maymun)

monkey, ape
Synonyms: شادی‎ (šâdi), کپی‎ (kapi)

Descendants

→ Adyghe: маймун (maajmun)

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