چمن

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Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Persian چمن (čaman).

Noun

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چمن (çemen)

  1. green field, meadow
  2. turf; grassplot

Further reading

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  • Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “چمن”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 287a
  • Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎[3], Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 62
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019) “çemen II”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 110b

Etymology 2

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From Armenian չաման (čʻaman).[1][2][3]

Noun

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چمن (çemen)

  1. caraway, Carum carvi[4] (plant, seed and paste made from seeds used to coat meat)
  2. fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum[5] (plant, leaves, seed and paste from it)
    Synonyms: بوی اوتی (boy otu), بوی تخمی (boy tohumu), بوی چیچگی (boy çiçeği), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)
Descendants
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  • Turkish: çemen
  • Armenian: չա̈մա̈ն (čʻämän), չեմեն (čʻemen)

References

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  1. ^ Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “çemen”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, page 223b
  2. ^ Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “çemen”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 213
  3. ^ Çınar, Ümüt, Kurt, Teslime (2019) “çemen”, in Mâcirce: a sub-dialect of the Meskhetian Turkish[1], pages 50–51
  4. ^ Baytop, Turhan (2007) “frenk kimyonu”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 109
  5. ^ Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چمن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 188a

Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology

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Related to چمیدن (čamidan, to stroll, saunter) and Old Armenian ճեմ (čem, walk), an Iranian borrowing. The senses "lawn" and "meadow" perhaps influenced by the Turkic. Compare Turkish çimen.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čaman
Dari reading? čaman
Iranian reading? čaman
Tajik reading? čaman

Noun

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چمن (čaman)

  1. (archaic) path, allee
  2. lawn
  3. meadow

Descendants

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Urdu

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Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Classical Persian چمن (čaman).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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چَمَن (camanm (Hindi spelling चमन)

  1. garden
  2. flourishing place, parterre, verdant

Proper noun

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چَمَن (camanm (Hindi spelling चमन)

  1. Chaman (a city in Qilla Abdullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan)