mamux

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian մամուխ (mamux, “sloe”).[1][2] Boretzky and Igla (1994) compared it with Persian مهمیز (mahmiz) and Turkish mahmūz (“spur, goad”) without knowing about the Armenian word.[3]

Noun

mamux f (nominative plural mamuxa)

  1. sloe[3][4]

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert (2012) Studien zum Wortschatz des Romani (in German), Faber, page 226
  2. Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 11–12
  3. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mamúx”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175a
  4. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e mamux(t), -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 233ab

Vlax Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Romani mamux.

Noun

mamux f

  1. (Gurbet, Kalderaš) sloe[1][2]
  2. (Bosnian Gurbet) vagina[1][3]

References
  1. “mamux” in Gurbet Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
  2. “mamux” in Kalderaš Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.
  3. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “mamúx”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 175a
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