بالمومی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بال مومی (bal mumu, bal mumı, bal momı)

Etymology

From بال (bal) +‎ موم (mum, mom).

Noun

بالمومی • (balmumu, balmumı, balmomı)

1. beeswax

Descendants

• بالمومجی (balmumcu, “wax-chandler”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bal mumu
• → Armenian: պալմոմի (palmomi), պալմումի (palmumi)

Further reading

• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “بالمومی”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 161
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cera”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 170
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 333a