Cebuano

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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mumò (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

  1. bogeyman

Etymology 2

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Undetermined.

Verb

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mumo (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

  1. to hit or bump one's mouth against something

Swahili

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Verb

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mumo

  1. Nonstandard form of mmo (you all are (inside there)).

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Philippine *muhmuh. Compare Ilocano mukmok, Kapampangan mumu, and Cebuano mumho.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mumo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

  1. particles of cooked rice falling of the plate or table during a meal
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Etymology 2

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Apparent reduplication of the first syllable of multo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mumò (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

  1. bogeyman; a monster causing fear in children's stories
    Synonym: mamaw
  2. (childish) ghost
Alternative forms
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Further reading

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  • 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