گاومیش

Persian

یک گاومیش

Alternative forms

• گامیش (gâmiš)

Etymology

From Middle Persian TWRAmyš (gāw-mēš, literally “cow-sheep”); compare Persian گاو (gâv, “cow”) and میش (miš, “ewe”) for the constituents. Old Armenian գոմէշ (gomēš), Classical Syriac ܓܡܘܫܐ (gāmōšā) and Old Georgian კამბეჩი (ḳambeči) are borrowed from Middle Iranian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡɑːw.meːʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɑːw.meːʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɑːw.meːʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡɑːw.meːʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡäw.meːʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̥ɒːv.miːʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɔw.meʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	gāwmēš
Dari reading?	gāwmēš
Iranian reading?	gâvmiš
Tajik reading?	govmeš

Noun

گاومیش • (gâvmiš) (plural گاومیشان (gâvmišân) or گاومیش‌ها (gâvmiš-hâ))

1. buffalo

   Synonym: بوفالو (bufâlo)

Inflection

Basic forms of گاومیش (gâvmiš)
	singular	plural
bare	گاومیش (gâvmiš)	گاومیشان (gâvmišấn) گاومیشا △ (gâvmišấ)
definitive direct object	گاومیش را (gâvmiš râ) گاومیش رو △ (gâvmišo)	گاومیشان را (gâvmišấn râ) گاومیشا رو △ (gâvmišấ ro)
ezâfe	گاومیش (gâvmiš-e)	گاومیشان (gâvmišấn-e) گاومیشای △ (gâvmišấ-ye)
marked indefinite or relative definite	گاومیشی (gâvmiš-i)	گاومیشانی (gâvmišấn-i) گاومیشایی △ (gâvmišấi)
△ Colloquial.

Descendants

• → Arabic: جاموس (jāmūs)
  • Hijazi Arabic: جاموس (jāmūs)
  • Maltese: gemus
  • Moroccan Arabic: جاموس (gāmūs)
  • → Azerbaijani: camış
  • → Ge'ez: ጋሙስ (gamus)
  • → Italian: Giammusso
  • → Ottoman Turkish: جاموس

    Turkish: camız, camış

• → Chechen: гомаш (gomaš)
• → Gujarati: ગાવમેશ (gāvmeś)
• → Old Georgian: გამეში (gameši)

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 618
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոմէշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 575b
• Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)‎^[1], Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 137
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 886, page 198
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36