μούσμουλο

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek μούσπουλον (moúspoulon), from μέσπουλον (méspoulon), from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon).

Noun

μούσμουλο • (moúsmoulo) n (plural μούσμουλα)

1. loquat (fruit)

Declension

Declension of μούσμουλο

	singular	plural
nominative	μούσμουλο (moúsmoulo)	μούσμουλα (moúsmoula)
genitive	μούσμουλου (moúsmoulou)	μούσμουλων (moúsmoulon)
accusative	μούσμουλο (moúsmoulo)	μούσμουλα (moúsmoula)
vocative	μούσμουλο (moúsmoulo)	μούσμουλα (moúsmoula)

Related terms

• μουσμουλιά f (mousmouliá, “loquat tree”)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: مشمله (muşmula), موشمله (muşmula), موشموله (muşmula)
  • Turkish: muşmula
  • → Albanian: mushmullë, mushmollë, mushmulla, mushmolla
  • → Arabic: مَشْمَلَة (mašmala), بَشْمَلَة (bašmala)
  • → Armenian: մուշմուլա (mušmula), մշմոլա (mšmola)
  • → Aromanian: mushmulã
  • → Azerbaijani: muşmula
  • → Bulgarian: му́шмула (múšmula), мо́шмула (móšmula)
  • → Crimean Tatar: muşmula
    • → Belarusian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
    • → Russian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
    • → Ukrainian: мушмула́ (mušmulá)
  • → Georgian: მუშმულა (mušmula), მუშმალა (mušmala)
  • → Laz: მუშმულლა (muşmulla)
  • → Macedonian: мушмула (mušmula)
  • → Megleno-Romanian: mușmul
  • → Romanian: mușmulă, mușmul, moșmol, moșmon, moșmulă, moșmoală, moșmoană
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: му̀шмула
    • Latin script: mùšmula

References

• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 51–52
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 246
• Matzenauer, Antonín (1870) Cizí slova ve slovanských řečech [Foreign words in Slavic languages] (in Czech), Brno: Matica Moravská, page 254

Further reading

• μούσμουλο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el