شامه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَامَة (šāma).

Noun

شامه • (şame) (irregular plural شام or شامات)

1. birthmark, mole, freckle

   Synonyms: بك (beñ), خال (hal)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şame¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4425b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1111a
• Seydi, Ali (1912) “شٰامَه”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[2] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 578c
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “شامه”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 455b

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَامَه (šāma). All descendants rather reflect a dialectal form *شامی (*şami), which may have arose by conflation with شامی (şami, “Damascene”), for which compare the similarly formed یمنی (yemeni, “headscarf”, literally “Yemeni”).

Noun

شامه • (şame)

1. shawl, veil, headscarf worn by women

   Synonyms: باش اورتوسی (baş örtüsü), یمنی (yemeni)

Descendants

• Turkish: şami, şamı (dialectal)
• → Albanian: shami
• → Aromanian: shimii / shimie
• → Bulgarian: шами́я (šamíja)
• → Macedonian: шамија (šamija)
• → Romani:

  Balkan Romani: šamija, šamia, šamuja

  Vlax Romani: šamija

• → Serbo-Croatian: šámija / ша́мија

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şame²”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4425b
• Seydi, Ali (1912) “شٰامَه”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 578c

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Persian شامه (šāmma). Ultimately from Arabic شَمَّ (šamma, “to smell”).

Noun

شامه • (şamme)

1. smell (sense)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şamme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4426a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1111a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5], Constantinople: Mihran, page 716b

Etymology 4

Adjective

شامه • (şame)

1. Alternative form of شامی (şami, “Damascene”)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 716b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَامَّة (šāmma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃɑːm.ˈma]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɑːm.mǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɑːm.mǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃɑːm.mǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃɔːm.mǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɒːm.mé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɔm.mǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šāmma
Dari reading?	šāmma
Iranian reading?	šâmme
Tajik reading?	šomma

Noun

Dari	شامه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шомма

شامه • (šâmme)

1. sense of smell
   • 1962, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, غرب‌زدگی [Occidentosis: A Plague from the West]:

     صاحب این قلم می‌خواهد دست‌کم با شامّه‌ای تیزتر از سگ چوپان و دیدی دوربین‌تر از کلاغی، چیزی را ببیند که دیگران به غمض عین از آن درگذشته‌اند.

     sâheb-e in qalam mi-xâhad dast-e kam bâ šâmme'i tiztar az sag-e čupân va didi durbintar az kalâği, čizi râ bebinad ke digarân be ğamz-e eyn az ân dargozašte'and.

     With a sense of smell keener than that of the shepherd's dog and a vision further seeing than that of a crow, the present writer would like to at least see something to which others have turned a blind eye.

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شامه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim