# میمون
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon, mandrill”).

### Noun

میمون • (meymûn or maymun) (definite accusative میمونی (meymûnu, maymunu), plural میمونلر (meymûnlar, maymunlar))
* monkey, ape, primate, any mammal in the order Primates except hominids
    Synonyms: شادی (şadi), قرد (kird)
* (figuratively) buffoon, clown, fool, one who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion

### Adjective

میمون • (meymûn or maymun)
* lucky, fortunate, auspicious, favourable, propitious, of good omen, indicating future success
    Synonyms: اوغورلو (uğurlu), بختلی (bahtlı), قوتلو (kutlu)

#### Derived terms

* بزكلو میمون (bezekli maymun, “ridiculous appearance”)
* ترس میمون (ters maymun, “variety of Damascus steel”)
* حبش میمونی (habeş maymunu, “baboon”)
* میمون اشتهالو (maymun iştahlı, “capriciously fanciful, temperamental”)
* میمون اویونی (maymun oyunu, “hoax, con”)
* میمون بالغی (maymun balığı, “angel shark”)
* میمون كبی (maymun gibi, “ridiculous”)
* میمون یوزلو (maymun yüzlü, “grimacing”)
* میمونجق (maymuncuk, “picklock”)
* میمونجی (maymuncu, “monkey man”)
* میمونلق (maymunluk, “quality or nature of a monkey”)
* هند میمونی (hind maymunu, “sapajou”)

#### 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

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “میمون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 807
* 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

Borrowed from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn), from يَمَنَ (yamana).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maj.muːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj.muːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäj.muːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäj.muːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäj.mun]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mejmuːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäj.mun]

### Noun

میمون • (meymun)
* monkey, ape
    Synonyms: شادی (šâdi), کپی (kapi), بوزینه (buzine)

#### Descendants

* → Adyghe: маймун (majmun)