التي في فئةENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 1
معلومات عن الموضوع
English - Etymology 1
Middle English _mowen_ (participle _mowen_), from Old English _māwan_ (past tense _mēow_, past participle _māwen_), from Proto-Germanic _*mēaną_ (compare Dutch _maaien_, German _mähen_, Danish _meje_), from Proto-Indo-European _*h₂meh₁_- ‘to mow, reap’ (compare Hittite _hamesha_ ‘spring/ararly summer’, literally, ‘mowing time’, Ancient Greek (poetic) _amân_)
PRONUNCIATION
* (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
* (US) IPA(key): /moʊ/
* Rhymes: -əʊ
VERB
MOW (_third-person singular simple present_ MOWS, _present participle_ MOWING, _simple past_ MOWED, _past participle_ MOWED _or_ MOWN)
* To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
_He MOWED the lawn_.
DERIVED TERMS
* mow down
TRANSLATIONS
Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English māwan (past tense mēow, past participle māwen), from Proto-Germanic
*mēaną (compare Dutch
maaien, German mähen, Danish meje), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- ‘to mow, reap’ (compare Hittite hamesha ‘spring/ararly summer’,
literally, ‘mowing time’, Ancient Greek (poetic) amân)
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(UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
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(US) IPA(key): /moʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle
mowing, simple past mowed,
past participle mowed or mown)
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To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
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He mowed the lawn.
التي في فئةENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 2
معلومات عن الموضوع
English - Etymology 2
Middle English _mowe_, from Middle French _moue_ (“lip, pout”), from Old French _moe_ (“grimace”), from Frankish _*mauwa_ (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch _mouwe_ (“protruding lip”). Cognate to _moue_ (“pout”).
PRONUNCIATION
* (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
* (US) IPA(key): /moʊ/
* Rhymes: -əʊ
NOUN
MOW (_plural_ MOWS)
* (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
* 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, _Essays_, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making MOWES at them.
* Shakespeare
Make MOWS at him.
TRANSLATIONS
VERB
MOW (_third-person singular simple present_ MOWS, _present participle_ MOWING, _simple past and past participle_ MOWED)
* To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610, _The Tempest_, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that MOW and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
* Tyndale
Nodding, becking, and MOWING.
TRANSLATIONS
Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe
(“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding
lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).
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(UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/
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(US) IPA(key): /moʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
mow (plural mows)
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(now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle
mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
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To make grimaces, mock.
التي في فئةENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 3
معلومات عن الموضوع
English - Etymology 3
Old English _mūga_. Cognate with Norwegian _muge_ (“heap, crowd, flock”).
PRONUNCIATION
* IPA(key): /maʊ̯/
* Rhymes: -aʊ
NOUN
MOW (_plural_ MOWS)
* (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
* The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
TRANSLATIONS
VERB
MOW (_third-person singular simple present_ MOWS, _present participle_ MOWING, _simple past and past participle_ MOWED)
* (agriculture) To put into mows.
TRANSLATIONS
Old English mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).
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IPA(key): /maʊ̯/
- Rhymes: -aʊ
mow (plural mows)
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(now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
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The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle
mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)
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(agriculture) To put into mows.
التي في فئةENGLISH - ETYMOLOGY 4
معلومات عن الموضوع
التي في فئةENGLISH - SEE ALSO
معلومات عن الموضوع
English - See Also
* MOW in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
التي في فئةENGLISH - ANAGRAMS
معلومات عن الموضوع
English - Anagrams
* OMW, WMO