صومون
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Alternative forms
[edit]- صمون (somun)
Etymology
[edit]From Byzantine Greek ψωμίν (psōmín) whence Greek ψωμί (psomí, “bread”), from Ancient Greek ψωμός (psōmós, “morsel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]صومون • (somun)
- a round slab of bread, a loaf, a bread roll
- an other slab, pig or solid block, particularly if of metal
- nut of a screw-bolt
Derived terms
[edit]- صومونجی (somuncu, occupational noun)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: somun
- → Gulf Arabic: صمون (ṣammūn)
- → Standard Arabic: صَمُولَة (ṣamūla), صَامُولَة (ṣāmūla)
- → Armenian: սոմուն (somun), սոմին (somin)
- → Bulgarian: сому́н (somún)
- Kurdish:
- → Macedonian: сомун (somun)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
References
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صومون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 2988
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “صومون”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 574a