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Cebuano
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
mumò (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)
- bogeyman
Etymology 2
Undetermined.
Verb
mumo (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)
- to hit or bump one's mouth against something
Swahili
Verb
mumo
- 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
Noun
mumo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)
- particles of cooked rice falling of the plate or table during a meal
Etymology 2
Reduplication of the first syllable of multo (“ghost”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mumò (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)
- bogeyman; a monster causing fear in children's stories
- Synonym: mamaw
- (childish) ghost
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