ܡܽܘܡ mwm mum bitumen
Derivative: ܡܘܼܡܝܵܐ mwmyʾ mumyā asphalt
MP *mōm, cf. ManMP mwm /mōm/ wax (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 235; MacKenzie 1979, 531 note on 284); Arm. LW mom (Hübschmann 196, 412); NP mōm, mūm wax (Steingass 1348); NP mōmiyā, mūmiyā the substance with which mummies are preserved, pissasphalt (ibid. 1349). Syr. mwm is a transcription of Pers. mūm; on the other hand, the derivative mwmyʾ could have been the model of NP mūmiyā ● mwm CommD, see Van Rompay 1986, 57.4 (ed.), 73.4 (transl.); mwmyʾ Med 56, 8; Bh Nom 378, 3 ◆ mwm Maggi 2003, no. 15; mwmyʾ LS 376b; PS Suppl. 187