بادم
Ottoman Turkish
بادام
Alternative forms
- بادام (badam), بایام (bayam)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian بادام (bâdâm, “almond”).
Noun
بادم • (badem)
- almond, the nut produced by the small tree Prunus amygdalus
- Synonym: لوز (levz)
Derived terms
- بادم آغاجی (badem ağacı, “almond tree”)
- بادمجك (bademcik, “tonsil”)
- بادم حلواسی (badem helvası, “a dessert made of almonds”)
- بادملك (bademlik, “almond plantation”)
- بادم پارمق (badem parmak, “index finger”)
- بادمی (bademi, “almond-shaped”)
Descendants
- Turkish: badem
- → Albanian: bajame
- → Adyghe: бадэ (baade)
- → Bulgarian: баде́м (badém)
- → Crimean Tatar: badem
- → Macedonian: бадем (badem)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бадем, ба̀јам, бајем
- Latin: badem, bàjam, bajem
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “badem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 419
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بادم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 233
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Amygdalum”, 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, Vienna, column 60
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بادام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 631
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “badem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بادم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317
Persian
Noun
بادم • (bâdom)
- (dialectal, Shiraz) alternative form of بادام (bâdâm, “almond”)
Southwestern Fars
Noun
بادم (bâdom)
- (Masarm, Deh Sarv) almond