كومش
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kümüĺ; cognate to Old Turkic 𐰚𐰇𐰢𐱁 (kümüš, “silver”), Azerbaijani gümüş, Old Uyghur kwymwš (kümüš), Karakhanid كُمُشْ (kümüš), Chuvash кӗмӗл (kĕmĕl), Kazakh күміс (kümıs), Kyrgyz күмүш (kümüş), Turkmen kümüş and Uzbek kumush.
Noun
[edit]گومش • (gümüş)
Derived terms
[edit]- گموشخانه (gümüşhane, “a Turkish province”)
- گومش بالغی (gümüş balığı, “sand smelt”)
- گومشلمك (gümüşlemek, “to cover with silver”)
- گومشلو (gümüşlü, “containing silver”)
- گومشی (gümüşi, “silver-grey”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: gümüş
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gümüş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1801
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Argentum”, 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[2], Vienna, column 82
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4093
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gümüş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604