شیشمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شیشـ (şiş-, “to swell, get fat”) +‎ ـمان (-man). This is one of the few native Turkish words to violate vowel harmony.

Adjective

شیشمان • (şişman)

1. fat, fleshy, obese, plump, well-fed, corpulent, overweight, carrying more fat than usual on one's body

   Synonyms: سمیز (semiz), سمین (semin)

Derived terms

• شیشمانلامق (şişmanlamak, “to grow fat, corpulent”)
• شیشمانلانمق (şişmanlanmak, “to grow fat, corpulent”)
• شیشمانلق (şişmanlık, “fatness, obesity”)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “شیشمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 164
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şişman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4495
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شیشمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 741
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şişman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شیشمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1147