مش
Brahui
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tamil மலை (malai, “mountain”) and possibly Elamite [script needed] (maš, “height, altitude”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]مَش (maś)
Further reading
[edit]- Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “4742”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Egyptian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ شَيْء (mā huwa šayʔ) and Arabic مَا هِيَ شَيْء (mā hiya šayʔ). The gender distinction was eventually lost, leaving miš, muš as interchangeable or regional variants.
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]مِش or مُش • (miš or muš)
- not
- أنا مش مصري.
- ʾana miš maṣri.
- I'm not Egyptian.
See also
[edit]Moroccan Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Berber language. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵎⵓⵛⵛ (amucc).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]مش • (mušš) m (plural مشاش (mšāš), feminine مشة (mušša))
South Levantine Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of ماهوش (mahúš, mahūš, “it is not”), obtained by applying the negative circumfix ما ...ـش (mā ...-š, “not”) to pronouns like هو (hū, “he; it”). Can be traced piecewise to Arabic مَا + هُوَ + شَيْء (mā + huwa + šayʔ, literally “it is not one thing”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]مش • (miš or muš)
See also
[edit]Tunisian Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From underlying Arabic مَا هُوَ شَيْء (mā huwa šayʔ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]مش (muš)
- not
- آنا مش تونسي.
- ʾāna muš tūnsi.
- I am not Tunisian.
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