رعام

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رُعَام (ruʕām, “glanders”).

Noun

رعام • (ruʿam)

1. glanders, an infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia

   Synonyms: صقاغی (sakağı), مانقفا (mankafa)

Descendants

• Turkish: ruam

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ruam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3978
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ruâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1075
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رعام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 624
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رعام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2329