հանըմ

Armenian

Alternative forms

• խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خانم (hanım).

Pronunciation

• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑnəm/, [hɑ́nəm]

Noun

հանըմ • (hanəm) (Western Armenian)

1. lady
2. miss (especially used to refer to a Turkish lady)

   Սալիհա հանըմ ― Saliha hanəm ― a character from a novel by Yervant Odian

   Մելիհա Նուրի հանըմ ― Meliha Nuri hanəm ― a character from a novel by Zabel Yesayan

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “հանըմ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 208