قامه

See also: قامة

Ottoman Turkish

قامه

Alternative forms

• قاما (kama), قما (kama)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kakma (“kind of nail”), from the same root of قاقمق (kakmak, “to push in, inlay”).

Noun

قامه • (kama)

1. wedge, one of the simple machines used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering
2. kind of long, double-edged, straight dagger
3. mark that signifies winning a point in children games

Derived terms

• بالطه قامه‌سی (balta kaması, “point of an axe”)
• قامه باصمق (kama basmak, “to mark a success, win”)
• قامه‌لامق (kamalamak, “to fix or split with wedges”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kama
• → Abaza: къама́ (qʼamá)
• → Abkhaz: аҟа́ма (aqʼáma)
• → Adyghe: къамэ (qamɛ)
• → Albanian: kamë
• → Armenian: ղամա (ġama), խամա (xama), կամա (kama)
• → Aromanian: camã
• → Bulgarian: кама́ (kamá)
• → Chechen: гӏама (ğama)
• → Greek: κάμα (káma)
• → Kabardian: къамэ (qamɛ)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: qeme, qame

  → Central Kurdish: قەمە (qeme)

• → Laz: ხამი (xami)
• → Macedonian: кама (kama)
• → Mingrelian: ხამუ (xamu)
• → Ossetian: хъама (qama)
• → Persian: قامه (qâma), قمه (qama)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̏ма

  Latin script: kȁma

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kama1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2366
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 406–407
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قمه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 370a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cuneus”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 310
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3597
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kama”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “286. CÁMǍ sb. f. pl. came”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[6], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 95
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1426