کمخا
Persian
editAlternative forms
edit- کمخاب (kamxâb, kemxâb)
Etymology
editOf Chinese origin; cf. Middle Chinese 錦花 (MC kimX xwae, “brocade-pattern”).
Noun
editکمخا • (kamxâ, kemxâ)
Descendants
edit- → Armenian: քամխա (kʻamxa)
- → Armeno-Kipchak: քամխա (kʻamxa) (possibly via Old Polish)
- → Crimean Tatar: кимха (kimha)
- → Georgian: ქამხა (kamxa), ხამხა (xamxa)
- → Middle Armenian: քեմխայ (kʻemxay), քիմխայ (kʻimxay), քիմհայ (kʻimhay)
- → Old East Slavic: камка (kamka) (via Turkic)
- Russian: камка́ (kamká)
- → Kazakh: қамқа (qamqa)
- → Kyrgyz: камка (kamka)
- → Old Polish: kamcha, chamcha, kamka (via Turkic)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كمخا (kemha, kimha)
- → Tatar: камка (qamka)
Further reading
edit- Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 1644, pages 602–606
- Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “քիմխա”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 669a
- Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 539
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1899) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume II (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 490
- Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1899) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume II (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1405
- Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, pages 245–246
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کمخا”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1048
- Tryjarski, Edward (1968–1972) Dictionnaire arméno-kiptchak d’après trois manuscrits des collections viennoises – Słownik ormiańsko-kipczacki na podstawie trzech rękopisów ze zbiorów wiedeńskich, volume I, Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, page 372