mummy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mummie, from Anglo-Norman mumie, from Middle French momie, from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, “wax”). Doublet of mumijo.
Inflected forms:
form: mummies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1832, Royal Society (Great Britain), Abstracts of The Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, From 1800 to 1830 inclusive, Volume 1: 1800-1814, page 201,
[…] Mr. Pearson proceeds to give a particular description of the very perfect mummy of an Ibis, which forms the chief subject of the present paper.
Leo was the first to discover what these burdens were. `Great heaven!' he said, `they are corpses on fire!' I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire.
But, more horrible, I had not failed to note that its purplish gleaming body resembled that of a human being - or of a chrysalis encasing one - or of a mummy!
Many people believed in the curse of the mummy, and soon, the curse had become an accepted part of Tut′s legend.
gloss: A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: For many, mummies fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the mummy itself, but in associated fears. The mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster.
gloss: Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: 'Mummy,' that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters.
gloss: Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.
(countable, uncountable, now rare) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A pulp.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of an European Army, confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs.
Going up to him, therefore, he laid hold on his lance, and breaking it, began to thresh him so severely, that, in spite of the resistance of his armour, he was almost beaten into mummy […].
You may beat them to a mummy, you may put them upon the rack, you may burn them on a gridiron, […] yet you will never remove them from that innate fidelity […]
gloss: A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Yet another scatological medicament was obtained from mummy, the material derived from a dried or embalmed human corpse, the most valuable being that imported from Mizraim (ancient Egypt).
Nonetheless, his book advertises many Paracelsian remedies, including laudanum, mummy, antimony and mercury.
In or near this place is a precious liquor, or mummy, growing, Mumnaky-koobasa they call it, which none presumes to take, it being carefully preserved for the King's sole use.
gloss: A sort of wax used in grafting.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
Related words: corpse
Derived words: corn mummy
mummia
mummification
mummiform
mummify
mummiology
mummy bag
mummy brown
mummy cloth
mummyish
mummylike
mummy nut
mummyology
mummy portrait
mummy wheat
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: mummie
lang: Albanian
word: mumje
lang: Arabic
word: مُومِيَاء
roman: mūmiyāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: موميا
roman: mūmiyā
lang: Aragonese
word: momia
lang: Armenian
word: մումիա
roman: mumia
lang: Asturian
word: momia
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mumiya
lang: Bashkir
word: мумия
roman: mumiya
lang: Basque
word: momia
lang: Belarusian
word: му́мія
roman: múmija
lang: Bengali
word: মমি
roman: momi
lang: Breton
word: balzamegenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: му́мия
roman: múmija
lang: Burmese
word: မံမီရုပ်ကလာပ်
roman: mammirupka.lap
lang: Buryat
word: муми
roman: mumi
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: мумия
roman: mumyja
lang: Catalan
word: mòmia
lang: Chechen
word: муми
roman: mumi
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 木乃伊
roman: muk⁶ naai⁵ ji¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 木乃伊
roman: mùnǎiyī
lang: Corsican
word: mummia
lang: Czech
word: mumie
lang: Danish
word: mumie
lang: Dutch
word: mummie
lang: Egyptian
word: z:a-H-A53
roman: sꜥḥ
lang: Erzya
word: мумия
roman: mumija
lang: Esperanto
word: mumio
lang: Estonian
word: muumia
lang: Faroese
word: mumia
lang: Finnish
word: muumio
lang: French
word: momie
lang: West-Frisian
word: mummy
lang: Friulian
word: mumie
lang: Galician
word: momia
lang: Georgian
word: მუმია
roman: mumia
lang: German
word: Mumie
lang: Greek
word: μούμια
roman: moúmia
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τάριχος
roman: tárikhos
lang: Gujarati
word: મમી
roman: mamī
lang: Hawaiian
word: iʻaloa
lang: Hebrew
word: מוּמְיָה
lang: Hindi
word: मम्मी
roman: mammī
lang: Hungarian
word: múmia
lang: Icelandic
word: múmía
lang: Ido
word: mumio
lang: Indonesian
word: mumi
lang: Interlingua
word: múmia
lang: Irish
word: mumaí
lang: Irish
word: seargán
lang: Italian
word: mummia
lang: Japanese
word: ミイラ
roman: mīra
lang: Japanese
word: 木乃伊
roman: mīra
lang: Javanese
word: mumi
lang: Kannada
word: ರಕ್ಷಿತ ಶವ
roman: rakṣita śava
lang: Kannada
word: ಮಮ್ಮಿ
roman: mammi
lang: Kashubian
word: mùmijô
lang: Kazakh
word: мумия
roman: mumiä
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ាំមី
roman: mammii
lang: Korean
word: 미라
roman: mira
lang: Kumyk
word: мумия
roman: mumiya
lang: Kyrgyz
word: мумия
roman: mumiya
lang: Ladin
word: mumia
lang: Latin
word: mumia
lang: Latvian
word: mūmija
lang: Lezgi
word: мумия
roman: mumiä
lang: Lithuanian
word: mumija
lang: Macedonian
word: му́мија
roman: múmija
lang: Malay
word: mumia
lang: Manx
word: shirgane
lang: Māori
word: whakapakoko
lang: Marathi
word: ममी
roman: mamī
lang: Mongolian
word: занданшуулсан шарил
roman: zandanšuulsan šaril
lang: Nepali
word: मम्मी
roman: mammī
lang: Norwegian
word: mumie
lang: Occitan
word: momia
lang: Odia
word: ମମୀ
roman: mami
lang: Ossetian
word: муми
roman: mumi
lang: Persian
word: مومیا
roman: mumyâ
lang: Piedmontese
word: mümia
lang: Polish
word: mumia
lang: Portuguese
word: múmia
lang: Punjabi
word: ਮੰਮੀ
roman: mammī
lang: Romanian
word: mumie
lang: Romansh
word: mumia
lang: Russian
word: му́мия
roman: múmija
lang: Sardinian
word: múmmia
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mumaidh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: му̑мија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȗmija
lang: Slovak
word: múmia
lang: Slovene
word: mumija
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: mumija
lang: Spanish
word: momia
lang: Spanish
word: chullpa
lang: Swahili
word: mumiani
lang: Swedish
word: mumie
lang: Tagalog
word: momya
lang: Tajik
word: мумиё
roman: mumiyo
lang: Tamil
word: மம்மி
roman: mammi
lang: Telugu
word: మమ్మీ
roman: mammī
lang: Thai
word: มัมมี่
roman: mam-mîi
lang: Tibetan
word: པུར་ཕུང
roman: pur phung
lang: Turkish
word: mumya
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مومیا
roman: mumya
lang: Turkmen
word: mumiýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: му́мія
roman: múmija
lang: Urdu
word: ممّی
roman: mammī
lang: Uyghur
word: مۇمىيا
roman: mumiya
lang: Uzbek
word: mumiyo
lang: Vietnamese
word: xác ướp
lang: Waray-Waray
word: momya
lang: Welsh
word: mymi
lang: Yakut
word: мумия
roman: mumiya
lang: Yoruba
word: ṣìgìdì