معما

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مُعَمًّى (muʕamman), passive participle of عَمَّى (ʕammā, to conceal, make cryptic).

Noun

معما (mu'amma)

  1. mystery
  2. riddle, puzzle

Descendants

  • Turkish: muamma

References

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1914
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُعَمًّى (muʕamman), passive participle of عَمَّى (ʕammā, to conceal, make cryptic).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? mu'ammā
Dari reading? mo'ammā
Iranian reading? mo'ammâ
Tajik reading? müʾammo

Noun

Dari مُعَمّا
Iranian Persian
Tajik муаммо

مُعَمّا (mo'ammâ) (plural معما‌ها (mo'ammâ-hâ) or مُعَمّات (mo'ammât))

  1. riddle; enigma; puzzle
    Synonyms: چیستان (čistân), لُغَز (loğaz)
  2. (poetry) very short poem which conceals the name of a person, to be puzzled out through textual clues

Descendants