# مو
## Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muː/

### Noun

مُو • (mū) m
* meu, baldmoney (Meum athamanticum)
    Synonym: شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ (šibitt barriyy)

#### Usage notes

Presumably obsolete, as the range of the plant ends southwards to the East in Bulgaria and to the West in Al-Andalus, apocryphically Morocco, and as a learned borrowing only used in medieval pharmacology, found in authors like the Cordoban Maimonides. It is usually, even by the pharmacognosists, called inexactly شِبِتّ (šibitt, “dill”).

#### Declension
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مو”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 622b
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “مو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 222a
* Löw, Immanuel (1916) “Bemerkungen zu Budge’s „The Syriac Book of Medicines“”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 70, pages 528 line 15 – page 529 line 3

## Chagatai
### Particle

مو (mū)
* used to form interrogatives

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa). Compare North Levantine Arabic مو (mū) and Iraqi Arabic مو (mū).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muː/

### Particle

مو • (mū)
* not
    مو غَرِيب عَلَيَّ. ― mū ḡarīb ʕalayya. ― It's not strange to me.

## Iraqi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

#### Particle

مو (mū)
* not
    مو مشكلة ― mu muškila ― No problem

### Etymology 2

From Turkic interrogative particle, compare Turkish mu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu/

#### Particle

مو (mū)
* used to form interrogatives
    چانوا بالسوق مو ؟ ― čānaw bis-sūg mū? ― They were at the market, were they not?

## Mozarabic
### Alternative forms

* מו (mw) — Hebrew script

### Etymology

From Latin meus (“my”).

### Determiner

مو (mū) (masculine, feminine ما)
* my
** c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A8 :مو الحبيب أنڢرم ذي مو امارmū al-ḥabīb anfərmə ḏī mū amārMy beloved is ill with my love.

### Notes

* Corriente transcribes it as ⟨mw⟩, which he takes to represent a Mozarabic mew.

### References

* ↑ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 77-79
* ↑ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 31

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Contraction of ما هو (ma hū, “it is not”), going back to Arabic مَا هُوَ (mā huwa, “it is not”) with the pronoun's final vowel clipped.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mu(ː)/

### Particle

مو • (mū)
* not (negates a noun)
    مو مشكلة ― mū miškle ― Not a problem

#### Usage notes

* Overwhelmingly associated with Syrian varieties. Lebanese usage tends toward مش (miš, muš) or toward displacing both options with ما (mā).

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian مو (mu).

### Noun

مو • (mu)
* hair

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1239b
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2017b

## Pashto
### Pronoun

مو • (mō)
* our (affixed form)
* your (affixed form, possessive of تاسو)

## Persian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mo/

#### Pronoun

مو • (mo)
* (dialectal, Mashhad, Bushehr, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) Alternative form of من (man)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwd /⁠mōy⁠/, “hair”), from Proto-Iranian *mauda- (“hair”), of uncertain origin. Probably from a compound of Proto-Iranian *maw- / *mū- (“bind”) (related to Sanskrit मवते (mavate, “bind, tie, fix”), see there for more) + either Proto-Iranian *dō- (“give”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) or Proto-Iranian *dʰē- (“to place, put”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”)).

#### Alternative forms

* موی (muy)
* مین (min) (dialectal)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [moː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [moː], [muː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [moː], [muː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [moː], [muː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mʊː], [mu]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [muː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mɵ]

#### Noun

مو • (mu) (plural موها (mu-hâ))
* hair
** 10th/11th century, attributed to Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr and Avicenna, :
    دل گرچه در این بادیه بسیار شتافت یک موی ندانست ولی موی شکافت اندر دل من هزار خورشید بتافت آخر به کمال ذره‌ای راه نیافتdil garči dar în bâdiya bisyâr šitâft yak môy nadânist valî môy šikâft andar dil-i man hazâr xuršêd bitâft âxar ba kamâl zarra-ê râh nayâftAlthough [this] heart hastened in this desert so much, A hair was not aware, but passed through hairs. A thousand of suns shined inside my heart At the end, it did not reach the smallest bit of excellence.
    Synonym: گیسو (gêsu)

#### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mōy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Iranian *mádu (“honey, wine”), as wine grapes are famously grown on vines. Compare میوه (mêve, “fruit”), مویز (maviz, meviz, “raisins”). Akin to Judeo-Isfahani [script needed] (mew, “vine”).

#### Noun

مو • (mow) (plural موها (mow-hâ))
* vine
    Synonyms: میو (mīv), میوانه (mīvāne), رز (raz), تاک (tāk)

##### Derived terms

* موستان (movestân)

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: մով (mov)
* → Azerbaijani: möv, mev, möy

#### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 283
* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 119-20