موم mom prob.=S. मधू+मल
P موم mom (prob.=S. मधू+मल), s.m. Bees-wax, wax:—mom-battī, or mom-kī battī, s.f. A wax-candle; a composition candle:—mom-jāma, s.m. Wax-cloth, cerecloth:—mom-dil, adj. Tender-hearted:—mom-ḍhāl, s.f. (dialec.)=mom-jāma, q.v.:—mom-raug̠an, vulg. mom-rogan, s.m. Wax and oil mixed (com. used for polishing furniture):—mom kī nāk, s.f. 'A nose of wax'; a person of a fickle disposition:—mom karnā, v.t. 'To make or convert into wax'; to make soft or pliable; to soften; to melt, thaw, move:—mom-gar, s.m. A worker in wax.
م mīm
م mīm, the thirty-first letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānī alphabet (the twenty-eighth of the Persian alphabet, and twenty-fourth of the Arabic). It is one of the labial letters, its sound being that of the English m. The corresponding letter of the Hindī is म ma, the twenty-fifth consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet, and the nasal letter of the fifth or labial class. As a numeral (see abjad) mīm denotes 40; and, by way of abbreviation, it may signify the month Mǒḥarram. Under the Mogal government mīm was the countersign by the Dīvān upon an imperial grant or assignment of revenue:—ma-kār, s.m. The letter, or the sound ma.
مام mām
P مام mām = P ماما māmā (prob. fr. S. माम), s.f. Mother;—a respectful compellation for an old woman;—a woman who acts as a kind of general servant; a maid-servant:—mām-ě-nāf, or mām-nāf, s.f. A midwife:—mām-nāfī, s.f. Midwifery (=māmāʼī):—māmā-garī, s.f. The work of a maid-servant.
