معما

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

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

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mo̞.ʔäm.mɑ́ː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mʊ.wäm.mɑ́ː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mu.wäm.mɔ́ː]

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
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