شیشمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شیشمك (şişmek, “to swell, get fat”) +‎ ـمان (-man), being one of the few native Turkish words to violate vowel harmony.

Adjective

شیشمان • (şişman)

1. fat, obese

Descendants

• Turkish: şişman
• → Albanian: shishman
• → Armenian: շիշման (šišman), շշման (ššman)
• → Macedonian: шишман (šišman)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741