Muses (sacred poetry) is often seen with a pensive expression; Terpsichore (choral dance and song) is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; Thalia (comedy) is often seen with a comic mask; and Urania (astronomy) carries a pair of compasses and the celestial globe. Greek "mousa" is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "art" or "poetry". According to Pindar, to "carry a "mousa"" is "to excel in the arts". The word derives from the Indo-European root "men-", which is also the source of Greek "Mnemosyne" and "mania", English "mind", "mental" and "monitor", Sanskrit "mantra"
Turkish delight Its name in Greek, λουκούμι ("loukoumi") shares a similar etymology with the modern Turkish and it is marketed as "Greek Delight". In Cyprus, where the dessert has protected geographical indication (PGI), it is also marketed as "Cyprus Delight". In Armenian it is called lokhum (լոխում). Its name in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel is "rahat lokum", and derives from a very old confusion of the two Ottoman Turkish names found already in Ottoman Turkish; indeed this mixed name can also be found in Turkey today. Its name in Serbo-Croatian is "ratluk", a reduced form of the same name. In Persian,