As a Hindi name
मू · mū · s.m.
(dialec.) = muh, or muṅh, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1084
मू · mū · s.m.
(dialec.) corr. of muh, or muṅh, 'face,' q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1084
मू · noun · masculine
बाल । सिर के बाल । केश · रोम — Śabdasāgara
मू · noun · masculine
मुख । चेहरा — Śabdasāgara
मू · masculine
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Cited formation "मू" is म + -ऊ: म means "the twenty-fifth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ऊ forms 'belonging to', 'tending to' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian مو (mō)/موی (mōy).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
binding, tying, fixing, Sch.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "mū" is the nominative dual of "mu" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. mū (cf. √ mav and 1. mīv) cl. 1. Ā. mavate, to bind, tie, fix, Dhātup. xxii, 71 : Caus. aor. amīmavat, Pāṇ. vii, 4, 80, Sch.: Desid. of Caus. mimāvayiṣati, ib. : Intens. māmoti, māmavīti, Siddh. on Pāṇ. vi, 4, 20.
2. mū mfn. binding, tying, fixing, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 20, Sch.
mū f. the act of binding or tying, L.
3. mū weak form of √ mīv, q.v.
mū 1 A. (mavate) To bind, fasten, tie.
mu m. (only L.; cf. √ mū) a bond
N. of Śiva
Alternative readings
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