# momo
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈməʊməʊ/, enPR: mō'mō
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo).

#### Noun

momo (plural momos or momo)
* A type of dumpling from Nepal, Ladakh or Tibet made with a simple flour and water dough and filled with meat, vegetables or cheese.
** 2007 July 1, “Far East of the U.N.”, in New York Times‎:Many dishes show a direct influence of China or India; for example, momos, or Tibetan dumplings, look like Chinese pot-stickers.
** 2022 January 25, Christina Morales, “How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:She heated handpies and tofu in her off-campus apartment, and at her home in India, she heats momos, dehydrates mangoes and cooks whole, shelled peanuts.
* (India, slang, offensive) A person from Northeast India.
** 2017 May 23, Alana Golmei, “Let’s talk about racism”, in Hindustan Times, Delhi:Since I come from the North-eastern part of India myself and belong to a minority race, I too have suffered from racism, at least in its milder forms. I’ve been called "chinky", "momo", "chowmein", and more.
** 2021 June 9, “Northeast Indians DISRESPECTED once again with 'momo' slur”, in India Today Northeast:Now, it is a well-known fact that many Northeast Indians are derogatorily called 'momos' after the dish by mainland Indians for their round-ish features.

##### Alternative forms

* mo-mo

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Clipping and reduplication of moron.

#### Noun

momo (plural momos)
* (US, slang, derogatory) A moron.
** 1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):The probability on one-four-reel machine is a million and a half to one. On three machines in a row, it's in the billions. It cannot happen… would not happen, you fuckin' momo!

### Further reading

* Momo (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “momo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* Eric Partridge (2005) “momo”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1310.

## Adangme
### Adverb

momo
* already

## Äiwoo
### Verb

momo
* to chew (in order to swallow)

### See also

* mabe

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 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.

## Hopi
### Etymology

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

### Noun

momo (plural momòot)
* bee

#### Derived terms

* Momo
* momohepto
* Momokatsina
* momosavìipi
* momospala
* momotsìipu
* momòohepto
* momòoki
* momòotsama

### 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
* Rōmaji transcription of もも

## Kholosi
### Etymology

From Sanskrit माम (māma, “uncle”).

### Noun

momo m
* (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, pages 13-36

## Maori
### Noun

momo
* a type, a kind, a species, a breed, a variety, a race, a genre

### Further reading

* momo entry at the online Māori Dictionary

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmõ.mu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmõ.mu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmo.mo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmo.mu/
* Hyphenation: mo‧mo

### Noun

momo m (plural momos)
* King Momo (character representing the king of carnival in Latin America)
* momo

## Spanish
### Etymology

Uncertain:
* from Vulgar Latin *mōmus, from Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos, “god of satire and mockery”), from μῶμος (mômos);
* from an imitative Proto-Germanic root, whence Dutch mom (“mask”), German Mumme (“mask”) - see mummer.
* from Old French momer (“to wear a mask”), related to momon (“mask”), from an child's word expressing astonishment. Compare English mum.
Cognate to Portuguese momo, Aragonese momo, Catalan mom, French momon (“mask”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmomo/ [ˈmo.mo]
* Rhymes: -omo
* Syllabification: mo‧mo

### Noun

momo m (plural momos)
* funny face; silly face
* alternative/ironic spelling of meme

### References

* ↑ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “momo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From apparent reduplication of the first syllable of multo.

### Noun

momo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)
* Alternative form of mumo