صومون

Ottoman Turkish

صومونلر

صومون

Alternative forms

• صمون (somun)

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ψωμίν (psōmín) whence Greek ψωμί (psomí, “bread”), from Ancient Greek ψωμός (psōmós, “morsel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈmun/

Noun

صومون • (somun)

1. a round slab of bread, a loaf, a bread roll
2. an other slab, pig or solid block, particularly if of metal
3. nut of a screw-bolt

Derived terms

• صومونجی (somuncu, occupational noun)

Descendants

• Turkish: somun
• → Gulf Arabic: صمون (ṣammūn)
• → Standard Arabic: صَمُولَة (ṣamūla), صَامُولَة (ṣāmūla)
• → Armenian: սոմուն (somun), սոմին (somin)
• → Bulgarian: сому́н (somún)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: semûn

  → Central Kurdish: سەمون (semun)

• → Macedonian: сомун (somun)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: со̀мӯн, са̀мӯн (now Croatia)

  Latin script: sòmūn, sàmūn (now Croatia)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صومون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 2988
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “صومون”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 574a