mumo

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

mumò (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. bogeyman

Etymology 2

Undetermined.

Verb

mumo (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. to hit or bump one's mouth against something

Swahili

Verb

mumo

1. Nonstandard form of mmo (“you all are (inside there)”).

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *muhmuh. Compare Ilocano mukmok, Kapampangan mumu, and Cebuano mumho.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmumo/ [ˈmuː.mo]
• Rhymes: -umo
• Syllabification: mu‧mo

Noun

mumo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. particles of cooked rice falling of the plate or table during a meal

Related terms

• mugmog

Etymology 2

Reduplication of the first syllable of multo (“ghost”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmumoʔ/ [ˈmuː.moʔ]
• Rhymes: -umoʔ
• Syllabification: mu‧mo

Noun

mumò (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. bogeyman; a monster causing fear in children's stories

   Synonym: mamaw

2. (childish) ghost

Alternative forms

• momo
• mumu

Further reading

• “mumo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*muhmuh”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI