حمایل

Ottoman Turkish

حمایل

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَائِل (ḥamāʔil), plural form of حِمَالَة (ḥimāla, “suspenders, hanger; amulet”).

Noun

حمایل • (hamayıl)

1. shoulder belt, crossbelt, any belt, band, or sash worn over one's shoulder

   Synonym: اوموز قایشی (omuz kayışı)

2. baldric, a broad belt used to hold a sword worn diagonally from shoulder to hip
3. Quran or similar book, or a charm or amulet carried suspended in its case over one shoulder
4. (by extension) amulet, charm, talisman, any magical object providing protection

Descendants

• Turkish: hamaylı
• → Albanian: hajmali
• → Middle Armenian: համայիլ (hamayil), համաիլ (hamail)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хама̀јлија

  Latin script: hamàjlija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamayl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1857
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hamaîl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حمائل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balteum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 113
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حمایل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1805
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حمایل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 805