شیشمان

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From شیشمك (şişmek, “to swell, get fat”) +‎ ـمان (-man), being one of the few native Turkish words to violate vowel harmony.

Adjective edit

شیشمان • (şişman)

fat, obese

Descendants edit

Turkish: şişman
→ Albanian: shishman
→ Armenian: շիշման (šišman), շշման (ššman)

References edit

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741

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