بادام

Kashmiri

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادام (bādām, “almond”). Cognate with Bengali বাদাম (badam), Gujarati બદામ (badām), Hindi बादाम (bādām), Marathi बदाम (badām), Nepali बदाम् (badām), Odia ବାଦାମ (bādāma), Punjabi ਬਦਾਮ (badām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːdaːm/

Noun

بادام • (bādām) m (Devanagari बादाम)

1. almond

Alternative forms

• بادَم (bādam)

Khalaj

Noun

بادام (bâdâm) (definite accusative بادامؽ, plural باداملار)

1. Arabic spelling of bâdâm (“almond”)

Declension

Declension of بادام

	singular	plural
nominative	بادام	باداملار
genitive	بادامؽݧ	باداملارؽݧ
dative	بادامقا	باداملارقا
definite accusative	بادامؽ	باداملارؽ
locative	بادامچا	باداملارچا
ablative	بادامدا	باداملاردا
instrumental	باداملا	باداملارلا
equative	باداموارا	باداملاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Noun

بادام • (badam)

1. Alternative spelling of بادم (badem, “almond”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بادام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 631

Pashto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑˈdɑm/

Noun

بادام • (bādā́m) m

1. almond

References

• “بادام”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “بادام”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

Persian

Alternative forms

• بادوم (bâdum) (Tehrani)
• بادم (bâdom) (Shiraz)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭣𐭠𐭬 (wʾtʾm /⁠wādām⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *vātādám. Cognate with Northern Kurdish bahîv, Zazaki vame and Baluchi گواتام (gwátám, “almond”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑː.ˈðɑːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.d̪ɑ́ːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.d̪ɑ́ːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.d̪ɑ́ːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.d̪ɔ́ːm]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.d̪ɒ́ːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.d̪ɒ́ːm]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [bɒː.d̪úːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔ.d̪ɔ́m]

Readings
Classical reading?	bāḏām
Dari reading?	bādām
Iranian reading?	bâdâm
Tajik reading?	bodom

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	بادام
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бодом

بَادَامْ • (bâdâm) (plural بادام‌ها (bâdâm-hâ))

1. almond

   Synonym: لوز (lowz, luz)

Descendants

• → Armenian: բադամ (badam)
• → Assamese: বাদাম (badam)
• → Azerbaijani: badam
• → Bengali: বাদাম (badam)
• → Burmese: ဗာဒံ (badam)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: بادام (badam)
  • Uzbek: bodom
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 巴旦 (bādàn)

  • Dungan: бадан (badan)
  • → Cantonese: 巴旦 (baa¹ daan³)

• → Central Kurdish: بادەم (badem)
• → Gujarati: બદામ (badām)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बादाम (bādām)

  Urdu: بادام (bādām)

• → Kashmiri: بادام (bādām), بادَم (bādam)
• → Kazakh: бадам (badam)
• → Khalaj: bâdâm
• → Kyrgyz: бадам (badam)
• → Marathi: बदाम (badām)
• → Malay: badam
  • Indonesian: badam
• → Odia: ବାଦାମ (bādāma)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بادم (badem), بادام (badam), بایام (bayam)
  • Turkish: badem
  • → Albanian: bajame
  • → Adyghe: бадэ (badɛ)
  • → Bulgarian: баде́м (badém)
  • → Crimean Tatar: badem
  • → Macedonian: бадем (badem)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бадем, ба̀јам, бајем (regional)

    Latin script: badem, bàjam, bajem (regional)

• → Punjabi: badām
  • → Gurmukhi script: ਬਦਾਮ
  • → Shahmukhi script: بدام, بادام (bādām)
• → Rohingya: badam
• → Sindhi: بادام (bādāmu)
• → Sanskrit: वाताद (vātāda), वाताम (vātāma)

  → Hindi: वाताद (vātād)

• → Tatar: бәдәм (bädäm)
• → Tibetan: བ་དམ (ba dam), འབའ་དམ ('ba' dam)
• → Turkmen: badam
• → Telugu: బాదం (bādaṁ)
• → Malayalam: ബദാം (badāṁ)
• → Tamil: பாதாம் (pātām), பாதம் (pātam)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wādām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “vātāma”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Band III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 465

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• بَدام (badām)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادام. Cognate with Gujarati બદામ (badām), Urdu بادام (bādām), Kashmiri بادام, Bengali বাদাম (badam), Nepali बदाम् (badām), Marathi बदाम (badām), Odia ବାଦାମ (bādāma).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /bä.ˈd̪äːmə̆/, /bə.ˈd̪äːmə̆/

Noun

بادام • (bādāmă) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਦਾਮ or ਬਾਦਾਮ)

1. almond (tree and fruit)

Declension

Declension of بادام
dir. sg.	بادام (bādām)
dir. pl.	بادام (bādām)
	singular	plural
direct	بادام (bādām)	بادام (bādām)
oblique	بادام (bādām)	باداماں (bādāmāṉ)
vocative	باداما (bādāmā)	بادامو (bādāmo)
ablative	باداموں (bādāmoṉ)	باداماں (bādāmāṉ)
locative	بادامے (bādāme)	بادامِیں (bādāmīṉ)
instrumental	باداموں (bādāmoṉ)	–

Derived terms

• بادامی (bādāmī, “russet”, adjective)

References

• “بادام”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بادام”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بادام (bâdâm), from Middle Persian wʾtʾm (wādām).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɑː.d̪ɑːm/
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.d̪ɑːm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: با‧دام

Noun

بادام • (bādām) m (Hindi spelling बादाम)

1. almond

Derived terms

• بادامی (bādāmī)

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu بادام (bādām).

Noun

بادام (bādām)

1. almond

Uyghur

Etymology

From Persian بَادَامْ (bâdâm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑdɑm/

Noun

بادام • (badam) (plural باداملار (badamlar))

1. almond

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN