آدیم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آدم (adım)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ātïm (“step”); cognate with Azerbaijani addım, Bashkir аҙым (aźım), Chuvash утӑм (ut̬ăm), Kazakh адым (adym), Kyrgyz адым (adım), Southern Altai адым (adïm), Turkmen ädim and Uzbek odim.

Noun

آدیم • (adım)

1. step, pace, an advance or movement made from one foot to the other

   Synonyms: خطوه (hatve), قدم (kadem)

2. pace, the distance covered in a step according to specific measurements

Derived terms

• آدیم آتمق (adım atmak, “to take a step”)
• آدیم آدیم (adım adım, “step by step”)
• آدیملامق (adımlamak, “to measure a distance by steps”)
• آدیملق (adımlık, “enough space to make one step”)
• آدیملو (adımlı, “stepped”)

 

Related terms

• آدمق (admak, “to take a step”)

Descendants

• Turkish: adım
• → Armenian: ատըմ (atəm), ադըմ (adəm), ադո̈ւմ (adüm)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “adım”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 115
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آدم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 17b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آدیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 240
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gradus”, 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 661
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آدم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 115
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “adım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آدیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 53