فلامور

Ottoman Turkish

فلامور (Tilia cordata)

Alternative forms

• افلامور (ıflamur), اوغلامور (uğlamur), اولامور (ulamur), اخلامور (ıhlamur, uhlamur)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek φλαμούρι (flamoúri, “linden”), from Byzantine Greek *φλαμούρι(ο)ν (*phlamoúri(o)n, “linden”), whence also Pontic Greek φλαμούριν (flamoúrin), φλαμούρι (flamoúri), Laz ჶლამური (flamuri), ჶელამური (felamuri).

The Greek tree name is thought to be identical with Byzantine Greek φλάμμουρον, φλάμπουρον (phlámmouron, phlámpouron, “war flag”) (Greek φλάμπουρο (flámpouro, “war flag”)), since linden wood was apt for making war flags, from Medieval Latin flammulum, flammula (“war flag in form of a flame”), from Latin flamma (“flame”).

Noun

فلامور • (fılamur)

1. linden (Tilia spp.)

Descendants

• Turkish: ıhlamur, fambur, felembur, felenbur, filanbur, fılambur, firambul, ıhlambur, ihlamır, ilamur, illamur, uhlamur
• → Armenian: ըխլամուր (əxlamur), օխլամուր (ōxlamur) (Constantinople)
• → Laz: ოხლამური (oxlamuri)

References

• φλαμούρι - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
• Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “ıhlamur”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 279
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “ıhlamur”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 183a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “فلامور”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1673
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 33
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ıhlamur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Miklosich, Franz (1890) “oxlamur”, in Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe)‎^[2] (in German), volume 38, Wien: In Commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn
• Psichari, Jean (1892) Études de philologie néo-grecque: recherches sur le développement historique du grec (in French), Paris: É. Bouillon, page LXXIV