mumo

Onomatopoeic.

mumò (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. bogeyman

Undetermined.

mumo (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

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

mumo

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

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmumo/ [ˈmuː.mo]
• Rhymes: -umo
• Syllabification: mu‧mo

mumo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

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

• mugmog

Reduplication of the first syllable of multo (“ghost”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmumoʔ/ [ˈmuː.moʔ]
• Rhymes: -umoʔ
• Syllabification: mu‧mo

mumò (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜋᜓ)

1. bogeyman; a monster causing fear in children's stories

   Synonym: mamaw

2. (childish) ghost

• momo
• mumu

• “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