momme

American  

[mom-ee] / ˈmɒm i /

noun

• momme
  plural

1. a Japanese unit of weight equal to 3.75 grams.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• momme
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of momme

1720–30; < Japanese, equivalent to mon- letter (< Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese wén ) + -me ( y ) eye (earlier *mai )

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Example Sentences

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momme

According to American measurements a momme is 0.132 oz. av. and 0.120 oz. troy.

From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott

Taking the extremes, the largest English male brain weighs 38,100 momme and the smallest 35,377, whereas the corresponding figures for Japan are 43,919 and 30,304, respectively, showing an astonishing range between extremes.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

Ni momme suru 'I consider it worth two momme,' or ni momme ni iasui 'I can sell this for more than two momme, or at two momme this is cheap.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear

Anyone violating this rule was fined ten momme of silver for each koku of rice purchased or sold by him.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

Fiacu me means 'one hundred momme,' fiacu ichi momme 'one hundred and one,' icquan me means 'one thousand momme,' jicquanme means 'ten thousand.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear

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