کشمش
Appearance
Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- کشمیش (kešmiš)
Etymology
[edit]Unknown; possibly borrowed from Turkic, as the green, seedless variety used is said to originate in Bokhara, Uzbekistan.[1] Compare Azerbaijani kişmiş (“raisin”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kiʃ.ˈmiʃ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰiʃ.míʃ]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | kišmiš |
Dari reading? | kišmiš |
Iranian reading? | kešmeš |
Tajik reading? | kišmiš |
Noun
[edit]کشمش • (kešmeš)
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: كِشْمِش (kišmiš)
- → Assamese: কিচমিচ (kismis)
- → Azerbaijani: kişmiş
- → Bengali: কিশমিশ (kiśmiś)
- → Chagatai: كِشْمِش
- → Gujarati: કિશમિશ (kiśmiś)
- → Georgian: ქიშმიში (kišmiši)
- → Javanese: kismis
- → Malay: kismis (کيسميس)
- → Pashto: کشمش (kišmiš)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كشمش (kişmiş), كشمشك (kişmişk)
- → Tatar: кишмиш (kişmiş)
- → Russian: кишмиш (kišmiš)
- → Turkmen: kişmiş
- → Yagnobi: кишмиш (kišmiš)
References
[edit]- ^ Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 231