Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic كَمُّون (kammūn),[1] from Aramaic כַּמֹּונָֹא / ܩܰܡܽܘܢܳܐ (kammōnā, cumin), from Akkadian 𒌑𒁷𒊺𒉪 (Ú.GAMUN /⁠kamūnu⁠/, cumin), from Sumerian [Term?] (/⁠gamun⁠/, cumin).

Noun edit

كمیون (kimyon)

  1. cumin, Cuminum cyminum[2] (plant and seed)

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “kimyon”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 318
  2. ^ Baytop, Turhan (2007) “kimyon”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 178

Further reading edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كمیون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1040
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كمیون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 4022
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمیون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1573
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2011) Il dizionario turco-ottomano di Arcangelo Carradori (1650)[4] (in Italian), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 217