یمش

Ottoman Turkish

یمشلر

Alternative forms

• یمیش (yemiş)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹ̄miĺč (“fruit, vegetable”); cognate with Azerbaijani yemiş, Bashkir емеш (yemeş), Chuvash ҫимӗҫ (śimĕś), Kazakh жеміс (jemıs), Kyrgyz жемиш (jemiş), Southern Altai јемиш (ǰemiš), Tatar җимеш (cimeş) and Turkmen iýmiş.

Noun

یمش • (yemiş) (definite accusative یمشی (yemişi), plural یمشلر (yemişler))

1. (botany) fruit, the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible

   Synonyms: ثمر (semer), میوه (meyve)

Derived terms

• تازه یمش (taze yemiş, “fresh-gathered fruit”)
• قوجه یمشی (koca yemişi, “arbutus berry”)
• قورو یمش (kuru yemiş, “dry fruit”)
• یمش آغاجی (yemiş ağacı, “fruit tree”)
• یمش ویرمك (yemiş virmek, “to bring fruit”)
• یمشجی (yemişci, “fruiterer, fruitmonger”)
• یمشلك (yemişlik, “the quality of fruit”)
• یمشلنمك (yemişlenmek, “to become furnished with fruits”)
• یمشلو (yemişli, “fruited; fruit-bearing”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: yemiş
• → Egyptian Arabic: يميش (yamīš), يامش (yāmiš)
• → Armenian: եմիշ (emiš)
• → Northern Kurdish: êmîş
• → Macedonian: емиш (emiš)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: јемиш

  Latin script: jemiš

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yemiş2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5287
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یمش”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 510b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یمش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1359
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fructus”, 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 619
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یمش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5607
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yemiş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یمش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2209