خیمه

See also: خيمة and خیمہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَيْمَة (ḵayma, “tent”), probably through Persian خیمه (xeyme).

Noun

خیمه • (hayme) (plural خیام (hiyam))

1. tent, a portable lodge made of skin or canvas used for sheltering people

   Synonyms: اوتاق (otağ), چادر (çadır), چرگه (çerge)

2. awning, or any other rooflike cover made of canvas mounted on a litter
3. (anatomy) pavilion, auricle, the cartilagineous part of the outer ear

Derived terms

• خیمه سرای (hayme-seray, “large tent”)
• خیمه نشین (hayme-nişin, “nomad”)
• خیمه گاه (hayme-geh, “camping ground”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hayme

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hayme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1915
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خیمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 558
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tentorium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1661
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خیمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1992
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خیمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 878

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic خَيْمَة (ḵayma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xaj.ˈma]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäj.mǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäj.mǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xäj.mǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xäj.mǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xej.mé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χäj.mǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xayma
Dari reading?	xayma
Iranian reading?	xeyme
Tajik reading?	xayma

Noun

Dari	خیمه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хайма

خیمه • (xeyme)

1. tent

Etymology 2

Noun

خیمه • (xime)

1. (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh) firewood