Talk:moff

@Fay Freak, this is the same word as Armenian մով (mov), Georgian მოვი (movi), Uzbek movut. I have not identified the ultimate origin, but the earliest attestation seems to be in Persian ca. 1540, in a passage which this author sloppily transliterates once as alecheh-ye mov kar-e Hend and again as alajeh-ye mov-e kar-e Hent from 'Alamara-ye Shah Tahmasp, ed. Iraj Afshar, Tehran, 1370/1991. Please help me identify the spelling of this Persian mov. --Vahag (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Actually, the Uzbek given by OED3 is probably connected with Persian ماهوت (māhūt, “cloth, broadcloth”) and does not belong here. --Vahag (talk) 18:25, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Their synonym is پیراهنی (pīr؜؜āhanī). I would expect homography with مو (mū, “hair”), which makes search difficult, and of course current coverage of clothing terms is not exhaustive, there you always find words and variants barely entered into any dictionary. Fay Freak (talk) 19:40, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

If you ultimately find something, consider also مَاهِيّة (māhiyya, “Sänfte”) like utterly untreated save by Freih. von Kremer, have the Mameluks brought it with themselves from the Caucasus? Fay Freak (talk) 19:46, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. I doubt the palanquin word is connected. Vahag (talk) 08:30, 7 June 2022 (UTC)