لوقوم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• لقوم

Etymology

From Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, “throat comfort”).

Noun

لوقوم • (lokum)

1. locoum, Turkish delight

Derived terms

• لوقومجی (lokumcu)

Descendants

• Turkish: lokum (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: llokum
• → Armenian: լոխում (loxum)
• → Bulgarian: локум (lokum)
• → English: locoum
• → French: loukoum, lokoum
• → Greek: λουκούμι (loukoúmi) (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: locum
• → Ladino: lokum
• → Macedonian: локум (lokum)
• → Serbo-Croatian: lòkum／ло̀кум

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوقوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1644