چام

See also: حام, جام, and خام

Munji

Noun

چام (čām)

1. eye

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Wholly regular from Arabic شَمْع (šamʕ, “wax; candle; torch”). The sound shift ش (ş) to چ (ç) has been of some frequency, also found in for example چلتیك (çeltik, “rice”), چمشیر (çimşir, “box”). The match with Chinese 杉 (MC sream, “fire; pine”) is probably a coincidence.

Noun

چام • (çam)

1. fir
2. pine

Derived terms

• چاملق (çamlık)

Descendants

• Turkish: çam
• → Albanian: çam
• → Aromanian: ciam
• → Bulgarian: чам (čam)
• → Macedonian: чам (čam)
• → Romanian: ceam
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ча̏м

  Latin script: čȁm

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “436. ČAM”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 106