حمایل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَائِل (ḥamāʔil).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ha.mɑː.ˈjil]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.mɑː.jɪ́l]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.mɑː.jɪ́l]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑː.jɪ́l]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɔː.jíl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [hæ.mɒː.jél̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [hä.mɔ.jíl]

Readings
Classical reading?	hamāyil
Dari reading?	hamāyil
Iranian reading?	hamâyel
Tajik reading?	hamoyil

Noun

حمایل • (hamâyel)

1. baldric, shoulder belt, crossbelt; belt, band, or sash worn over one's shoulder
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     جوزا سحر نهاد حمایل برابرم
     یعنی غلام شاهم و سوگند می‌خورم

     jawzā sahar nihād hamāyil barābaram
     ya'nī ğulām-i šāham u sawgand mē-xwaram

     At dawn, Gemini put on his baldric while facing me;
     That means, "I am the king's slave, and I swear my oath."

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حمایل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Ottoman Turkish

حمایل

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَائِل (ḥamāʔil), plural form of حِمَالَة (ḥimāla, “suspenders, hanger; amulet”).

Noun

حمایل • (hamayıl)

1. shoulder belt, crossbelt, any belt, band, or sash worn over one's shoulder

   Synonym: اوموز قایشی (omuz kayışı)

2. baldric, a broad belt used to hold a sword worn diagonally from shoulder to hip
3. Quran or similar book, or a charm or amulet carried suspended in its case over one shoulder
4. (by extension) amulet, charm, talisman, any magical object providing protection

Descendants

• Turkish: hamaylı
• → Albanian: hajmali
• → Middle Armenian: համայիլ (hamayil), համաիլ (hamail)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хама̀јлија

  Latin script: hamàjlija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamayl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1857
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hamaîl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 382
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حمائل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balteum”, 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^[4], Vienna, column 113
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حمایل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1805
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حمایل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 805