شمه

Mazanderani

Determiner

شمه (šeme)

1. your

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَمَّة (šamma).

Noun

شمه • (şemme)

1. sniff, an instance of sniffing, a short inhalation through the nose
2. (figuratively) sniff, a tiny amount or slight sample of something

Descendants

• Turkish: şemme

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şemme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4456
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şemme”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1184
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 734
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Odor”, 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, columns 1193-1194
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2864
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian شمه (šeme, “colostrum”).

Noun

شمه • (şeme)

1. beestings, colostrum, the first milk drawn from an animal

   Synonym: آغز (ağız)

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 2864
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

Persian

Noun

شمه • (šeme)

1. (archaic) colostrum

   Synonyms: شیرماک (širmâk), آغوز (âğuz)

2. (archaic) clotted cream, kaymak

   Synonym: سرشیر (saršir)