հանըմ
Armenian
Alternative forms
- խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish خانم (hanım).
Noun
հանըմ • (hanəm) (Western Armenian)
- lady
- miss (especially used to refer to a Turkish lady)
- Սալիհա հանըմ ― Saliha hanəm ― a character from a novel by Yervant Odian
- Մելիհա Նուրի հանըմ ― Meliha Nuri hanəm ― a character from a novel by Zabel Yesayan
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902) , “հանըմ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The Influence of Turkish on Armenian and Words Borrowed from Turkish in the Vernacular Armenian Language of Constantinople in Comparison with the Dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow, Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 208