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, “monkey man”)
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
→ Georgian: მაიმუნი (maimuni)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maymun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3088
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “میمون”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
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 2056

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maj.muːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.muːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäj.muːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäj.mun]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mejmuːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.mun]

Readings
Classical reading^?	maymūn
Dari reading^?	maymūn
Iranian reading^?	meymun
Tajik reading^?	maymun

Noun


Dari	شادی
Iranian Persian	میمون
Tajik	маймун

میمون • (maymun)

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

Descendants

→ Adyghe: маймун (majmun)

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