خانم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خان (han, “king, ruler”) + a feminine suffix for nobility titles.

Noun

خانم • (hanım)

1. lady, woman
2. Miss, Mrs, Lady
3. wife

Derived terms

• خانمجق (hanımcık)
• خانملق (hanımlık)

Descendants

• Ladino: hanum
• Turkish: hanım
• → Egyptian Arabic: هَانِم (hānim)
• → North Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
• → South Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
• → Armenian: հանըմ (hanəm), խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)
• → Bulgarian: ханъ́ма (hanǎ́ma)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: хану̀ма

  Latin script: hanùma

Persian

Alternative forms

• خانوم (xânum)

Etymology

From خان (xân) and the genitive enclitic -em, or perhaps from Persian کانم (kânom, “a married woman”).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xɑː.ˈnum]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.nʊ́m]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɑː.nʊ́m]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɑː.nʊ́m]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xɔː.núm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xɒː.nóm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χɔ.núm]

Readings
Classical reading?	xānum
Dari reading?	xānum
Iranian reading?	xânom
Tajik reading?	xonum

Noun

Dari	خانم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хонум

خانُم • (xânom) (plural خانم‌ها (xânom-hâ))

1. Mrs, Ms
2. lady

   Synonym: بانو (bânu)

3. madam (used in Iran especially in the 19th century)

Descendants

• → Punjabi: خانَم (xānam)
• → Urdu: خانَم (xānam)

Punjabi

Etymology

From Classical Persian خانم (xānum).

Noun

خانَم • (xānam) f

1. khanum

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian خانم (xānum).

Noun

خانَم • (xānam) f (Hindi spelling ख़ानम)

1. a lady, a woman of rank, a princess; title of the wife of a ḵẖān

Further reading

• Platts, John T. (1884) “خانم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.