كومش

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گموش (gümüş), گوموش (gümüş), گومش (gümüş)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kümüĺ; cognate to Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰢𐱁 (kümüš, “silver”), Azerbaijani gümüş, Old Uyghur kwymwš (kümüš), Karakhanid كُمُشْ (kümüš), Chuvash кӗмӗл (kĕmĕl), Kazakh күміс (kümıs), Kyrgyz күмүш (kümüş), Turkmen kümüş and Uzbek kumush.

Noun

كومش • (gümüş)

1. silver, a lustrous, white, metallic element

   Synonyms: سیم (sim), فضه (fudda)

Derived terms

• كموشخانه (gümüşhane, “a Turkish province”)
• كومش بالغی (gümüş balığı, “sand smelt”)
• كومشلمك (gümüşlemek, “to cover with silver”)
• كومشلو (gümüşlü, “containing silver”)
• كومشی (gümüşi, “silver-grey”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: gümüş

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gümüş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1801
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Argentum”, 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 82
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4093
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gümüş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604