μούσμουλο

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μούσπουλον (moúspoulon), from μέσπουλον (méspoulon), from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon).

Noun

μούσμουλο • (moúsmoulo) n (plural μούσμουλα)

loquat (fruit)

Declension

declension of μούσμουλο

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •
genitive	μούσμουλου •	μούσμουλων •
accusative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •
vocative	μούσμουλο •	μούσμουλα •

Related terms

μουσμουλιά f (mousmouliá, “loquat tree”)

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: مشمله (muşmula), موشمله (muşmula), موشموله (muşmula)
- Turkish: muşmula
- → Albanian: mushmullë, mushmollë, mushmulla, mushmolla
- → Arabic: مَشْمَلَة (mašmala), بَشْمَلَة (bašmala)
- → Armenian: մուշմուլա (mušmula), մշմոլա (mšmola)
- → Aromanian: mushmulã
- → Azerbaijani: muşmula
- → Bulgarian: му́шмула (múšmula), мо́шмула (móšmula)
- → Crimean Tatar: muşmula
  - → Belarusian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
  - → Russian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
  - → Ukrainian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
- → Georgian: მუშმულა (mušmula), მუშმალა (mušmala)
- → Laz: მუშმულლა (muşmulla)
- → Macedonian: мушмула (mušmula)
- → Megleno-Romanian: mușmul
- → Romanian: mușmulă, mușmul, moșmol, moșmon, moșmulă, moșmoală, moșmoană
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic script: му̀шмула
  - Latin script: mùšmula

References

Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 51–52
Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 246
Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 254

Further reading

μούσμουλο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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