different between caftan vs momo

English

Noun

caftan (plural caftans)

1. Alternative spelling of kaftan

French

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaf.t??/

Noun

caftan m (plural caftans)

1. kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)

Further reading

• “caftan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• kaftan

Noun

caftan m (plural caftans)

1. kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????? (kaftan).

Noun

caftan n (plural caftane)

1. kaftan, mantle

Declension

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ??????? (mog mog), from Mandarin ????? (mómo).

Noun

momo (plural momos)

1. A type of Tibetan, Ladakhi and Nepali dumpling made with a simple flour and water dough.

Translations

Adangme

Adverb

momo

1. already

Aiwoo

Verb

momo

1. to chew (in order to swallow)

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

See also

• mabe

Hopi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

momo (plural momòot)

1. bee

Derived terms

References

• Albert, Roy; Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 40
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 244

Japanese

Romanization

momo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (m?ma, “uncle”).

Noun

momo m

1. (family) maternal uncle

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[2], pages 13-36

Maori

Noun

momo

1. a type, a kind, a species, a breed, a variety, a race, a genre

Further reading

• momo entry at the online M?ori Dictionary

Portuguese

Noun

momo m (plural momos)

1. King Momo (character representing the king of carnival in Latin America)
2. momo

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain:

• from Vulgar Latin *m?mus, from Ancient Greek ????? (Mômos, “god of satire and mockery”), from ????? (mômos);
• from an imitative Proto-Germanic root, whence Dutch mom (“mask”), German Mumme (“mask”) - see mummer.

Cognate to Portuguese momo, Aragonese momo, Catalan mom, French momon (“mask”).

Noun

momo m (plural momos)

1. funny face; silly face

Tagalog

Etymology

From Mandarin ? (mó, “demon”).

Noun

momo

1. monster, ghost