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Etymology edit

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 (badamô), Punjabi ਬਦਾਮ (badām).

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بادام (bādāmm (Devanagari बादाम)

  1. almond

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

  1. Arabic spelling of bâdâm (almond)

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Ottoman Turkish edit

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بادام (badam)

  1. Alternative spelling of بادم (badem, almond)

Further reading edit

  • 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 edit

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بادام (bādā́mm

  1. almond

References edit

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

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Etymology edit

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

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Readings
Classical reading? bāḏām
Dari reading? bādām
Iranian reading? bâdâm
Tajik reading? bodom
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Dari بادام
Iranian Persian
Tajik бодом

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

  1. almond
    Synonym: لوز (lowz, luz)

Descendants edit

References edit

  • 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

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

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

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بادام (bādāmm (Hindi spelling बादाम)

  1. almond

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Ushojo edit

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From Urdu بادام (bādām).

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بادام (bādām)

  1. almond

Uyghur edit

Etymology edit

From Persian بَادَامْ (bâdâm).

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بادام (badam) (plural باداملار (badamlar))

  1. almond

Further reading edit

  • 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