عجمی

See also: عجمي

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ad͡ʒɛˈmiː]
• (Western Rumelia) IPA^(key): [ad͡ʒaˈmiː]

Noun

عجمی • (acemi)

1. foreigner, barbarian
2. a member of the corps of young pages in the palace, or at a special school for training
3. a member of a special corps of recruits for the Janissaries
4. untrained, unexperienced, novice

Adjective

عجمی • (acemi)

1. see the noun

Derived terms

• عجمیلك (acemilik)

Descendants

• Turkish: acemi
• → Albanian: axhami
• → Armenian: աճեմի (ačemi), ա̈ջա̈մի (äǰämi)
• → Aromanian: agiami, agiamie, agiamit, agimit
• → Bulgarian: аджами́я (adžamíja), аджеми́я (adžemíja), аджами́йски (adžamíjski), аджеми́йски (adžemíjski)
• → Greek: ατζαμής (atzamís)
• → Ladino: adjami
• → Macedonian: аџамија (adžamija)
• → Romanian: ageamiu
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: аџа̀мија, аџа̀мӣјскӣ, аџа̀млија

  Latin script: adžàmija, adžàmījskī, adžàmlija

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عجمی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3223
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “26. AǦAMÍ sb. m. pl. aǧamitsǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 75

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.d͡ʒa.ˈmiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d͡ʒä.míː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d͡ʒä.míː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d͡ʒä.míː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d͡ʒä.mí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.d͡ʒæ.míː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.d͡ʒä.mí]

Readings
Classical reading?	ajamī
Dari reading?	ajamī
Iranian reading?	ajami
Tajik reading?	ajami

Adjective

Dari	عجمی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	аҷамӣ

عجمی • ('ajami)

1. Ajami

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.d͡ʒə.miː/

Adjective

عجمی • (ajamī) (Hindi spelling अजमी)

1. Ajami