شمه

Mazanderani

Determiner

شمه (šeme)

1. your

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَمَّة (šamma).

Noun

شمه • (şemme)

1. sniff, an instance of sniffing, a short inhalation through the nose
2. (figuratively) sniff, a tiny amount or slight sample of something

Descendants

• Turkish: şemme

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şemme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4456
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şemme”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1184
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 734
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Odor”, 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^[3], Vienna, columns 1193-1194
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2864
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian شمه (šeme, “colostrum”).

Noun

شمه • (şeme)

1. beestings, colostrum, the first milk drawn from an animal

   Synonym: آغز (ağız)

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[6], Vienna, column 2864
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَمَّة (šamma).

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.mǽ]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæm.mé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.mǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	šamma
Dari reading?	šamma
Iranian reading?	šamme
Tajik reading?	šamma

Noun

شمه • (šamme)

1. inkling, slight notion; very small quantity
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 121:

     قصهٔ فرهاد و مجنون چند بر من خواندند
     کان همه شمه از حال پریشان منست

     qissa-yi farhād u majnūn čand bar man xwāndand
     k-ān hama šamma az hāl-i parēšān-i man ast

     They read to me the tales of Farhad and Majnun for a while,
     All of which are a mere inkling of my distraught condition.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (archaic, original sense) sniff (with the nose)

Etymology 2

Noun

شمه • (šeme or šemme)

(archaic)

1. colostrum

   Synonyms: شیرماک (širmâk), آغوز (âğuz)

2. clotted cream, kaymak

   Synonym: سرشیر (saršir)

Further reading

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