Ottoman Turkish edit

 
چیم

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïm (sod, turf; meadow);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çim (turf, sod), Chagatai چيم (čim, turf, sod), Kazakh шым (şym, turf, sod) and Kyrgyz чым (cım), while Armenian ճիմ (čim) and Udi ճում (čum) are both Turkic borrowings.

Noun edit

چیم (çim)

  1. sod, turf, the stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass
  2. grassplot, lawn, ground (generally around the house) covered with grass kept closely mown
  3. fresh-sprouted grain, any grain that has recently started to develope new growths from its seeds
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Turkish: çim

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čïm”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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Etymology 2 edit

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Noun edit

چیم (çim)

  1. The Persian letter چ.

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