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

Inflected Forms

noun

• momme
  plural

Etymology

Origin of momme

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

Example Sentences

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 Brinkley, F. (Frank)

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 Spear, Richard L.

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 Spear, Richard L.

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 Gulick, Sidney Lewis

Then comes ippun, which is one tenth of a momme.

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