جومرد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جومرد (jumard), shortening of جوانمرد (javân-mard, “brave, generous”). Compare other Turkic languages, such as Bashkir йомарт (yomart), Kazakh жомарт (jomart), Tatar юмарт (yumart), Turkmen jomart and Uzbek jumard.

Adjective

جومرد • (cömerd)

1. generous, liberal, munificent, permitting liberty, willing to give and share unsparingly

Derived terms

• جومردلك (cömerdlik, “generosity, munificence”)

Descendants

• Turkish: cömert

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cömert”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 833
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جومرد”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جومرد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 450
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Liberalis”, 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 943
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جومرد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1684
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cömert”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جومرد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 691