تمو
Karakhanid
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *tamu (“hell”) ultimately borrowed from Sogdian 𐽂𐼺𐼴 (tmw, “hell”) from Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHas (“darkness”).[1]
Cognate with Turkish tamu, Uzbek tamugʻ and Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq).
Noun
تَمُو (tamū)
- (religion) hell
- تَمُو قَبُغِنْ اَجارْ تَڤارْ ― Tamū qapuğïn ačār tavār. ― Posessions open the gates of hell.
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tamu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 503
Further reading
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 234
Malay
Verb
تمو
Noun
تمو (plural تمو-تمو or تمو٢)
Ushojo
Etymology
Adjective
تمو (tamō)