خاموش

See also: جاموس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خاموش (xâmuš, “silent”).

Adjective

خاموش • (hamuş)

1. quiet, silent, free of sound or noise

   Synonym: صوص (sus)

2. silent, mute, taciturn, not speaking
3. (of fire or light) extinguished, put out
4. (of tears) dried up, stanched, ceased
5. (of a beast) quiet, tractable, docile

Derived terms

• خاموشان (hamuşan, “cemetery”)
• خاموشلق (hamuşluk, “silence”)
• خاموشی (hamuşî, “silence”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hamuş

Interjection

خاموش • (hamuş)

1. quiet, be still

   Synonym: صوص (sus)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamuş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1862
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خاموش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 529
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Silere”, 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 1555
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خاموش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1846
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خاموش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 826

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian hʾmwš (xāmōš, “silent”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to forget”); cognates include Latvian aizmirst (“to forget”). Compare also Old Armenian համր (hamr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xɑː.ˈmoːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.móːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.móːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑː.móːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔː.mʊ́ːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.múːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔ.mɵ́ʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xāmōš
Dari reading?	xāmōš
Iranian reading?	xâmuš
Tajik reading?	xomüš

Adjective

خَاموش • (xâmuš) (comparative خَاموش‌تَر (xâmuš-tar), superlative خَاموش‌تَرین (xâmuš-tarin))

1. quiet
2. silent
3. off

Descendants

• → Armenian: խամուշ (xamuš)
• → Azerbaijani: xamuş
• → Bengali: খামোশ (khamōś)
• → Georgian: ხამუში (xamuši), ხამუშ-ხამუშ (xamuš-xamuš)
• → Gujarati: ખામોશ (khāmoś)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ामोश (xāmoś)

  Urdu: خاموش (xāmoś)

• → Ottoman Turkish: خاموش (hamuş)
  • Turkish: hamuş
• → Punjabi: khāmoś

  Gurmukhi: ਖਮੋਸ਼ (khāmoś)

  Shahmukhi: خاموش (xāmoś)

References

• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 306

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَاموش (xâmôš).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.moːʃ/

Adjective

خاموش • (xāmoś) (Hindi spelling ख़ामोश)

1. quiet
2. silent

Related terms

• خاموشی (xāmośī, “silence”)