دخمه

See also: دخمہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).

Noun

دخمه • (dahme)

1. vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
2. mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
3. (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
4. Roman candle, a traditional type of firework

Descendants

• Turkish: dahme

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sepulchrum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1543
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دخمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2037
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dax.ma]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äx.mä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äx.mä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äx.mä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äx.mä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æx.me]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äχ.mä]

Readings
Classical reading?	daxma
Dari reading?	daxma
Iranian reading?	daxme
Tajik reading?	daxma

Noun

Dari	دخمه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дахма

دخمه • (daxme)

1. tomb
2. (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: dəxmə
• → Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
  • Turkish: dahme
• → Urdu: دخمہ (daxma)
• → Uzbek: daxma

Further reading

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