خرمن

See also: حرمن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خرمان (harman)

Etymology

From Persian خرمن (xirman, xarman).

Noun

خرمن • (hirmen, harmen, hermen)

1. harvest, crop
2. threshing floor

Descendants

• Turkish: harman (with dialectal variants)
• → Armenian: հառման (haṙman), խարման (xarman)
• → Bulgarian: харма́н (harmán)
• → Macedonian: харман (harman)
• → Romanian: harman
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀рман

  Latin script: hàrman

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 537
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خرمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1886
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “خرمن”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 406c

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Persian

Etymology

The sense of a threshing floor is only a metonymy or clipping of خرمنگاه (xermangâh, literally “crop or sheave seat”) (badly: خرمانکاه (xermankâh, “harvest-hay”)). The origin of the whole word is unknown.

If harvest breaks down to what is fitted into a long bag, somewhat of a غِرَارَة (ḡirāra), it may be the جِرَاب (jirāb, “pouch”) wanderwort, which surfaces suffixed in Arabic جِرْبَان (jirbān, “scabbard; belt; collar”) and in dubious candidates like Old Armenian գրապան (grapan, “hem; ephod; pocket”), as well derived from the seemingly perfectly unrelated Iranian uncles of گریبان (giribân, garibân, “collar”), or obscurely borrowed Russian карма́н (karmán, “pocket”).

Noun

خرمن • (xarman, xerman)

1. harvest, crop
2. threshing floor

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xırman
• → Kazakh: қырман (qyrman)
• → Khorasani Turkish: xarman
• → Kyrgyz: кырман (kırman)
• → Laz: ხარმანი (xarmani)
• → Turkmen: harman
• → Ottoman Turkish: خرمن (hirmen, harmen, hermen), خرمان (harman)
  • Turkish: harman (with dialectal variants)
  • → Armenian: հառման (haṙman), խարման (xarman)
  • → Bulgarian: харма́н (harmán)
  • → Macedonian: харман (harman)
  • → Romanian: harman
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̀рман

    Latin script: hàrman

• → Uzbek: хирмон (xirmon)
  • → Russian: хирма́н (xirmán)

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خرمن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Fleischer, Heinrich (1867) “Nachträgliches”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums‎^[3] (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 417b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خرمن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خرمن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[4] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 681–682