కమీజు

Telugu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *hamô

Proto-West Germanic *hamō

Proto-West Germanic *-iþi

Proto-West Germanic *hamiþibor.

Late Latin camisia

Old Galician-Portuguese camisa

Portuguese camisabor.

Telugu కమీజు (kamīju)

From Portuguese camisa (“shirt”).

Noun

కమీజు • (kamīju) n (plural కమీజులు)

1. shirt

References

• కమీజు at Telugu On-line Dictionaries Project on Andhra Bharati, partially sponsored by the Telugu Association of North America (in Telugu)
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) “10.5 Loanwords from western languages: Portuguese and English”, in The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 478.