حجامت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَجَامَة (ḥajāma, “cupping”).

Noun

حجامت • (hacâmet or hacâmat) (definite accusative حجامتی (hacâmeti), plural حجامتلر (hacâmetler))

1. (medicine) cupping, the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot

Derived terms

• حجامت اولمق (hacâmet olmak, “to be cupped, scarified”)
• حجامت ایتمك (hacâmet etmek, “to cup, scarify”)
• حجامت بوینوزی (hacâmet boynuzu, “cupping horn”)
• حجامت زنبركی (hacâmet zembereği, “cupper's spring lancet box”)
• حجامت شیشه‌سی (hacâmet şişesi, “cupping glass”)
• حجامتجی (hacâmetci, “cupper, scarificator”)
• عرب حجامتی (ʼarab hacâmeti, “scarification with a razor”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: hacamat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hacamat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1826
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hacâmet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 364
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حجامت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 498
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cucurbitas applicare”, 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 307
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حجامت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1727
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hacamat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حجامت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 765