خاخام
Ottoman Turkish
خاخام
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew חָכָם (khakhám, “wise man; rabbi”).
Noun
خاخام • (haham)
- (Judaism) rabbi, a Jewish scholar or teacher of Jewish law
Derived terms
- خاخام باشی (haham başı, “chief rabbi of Costantinople”)
- خاخاملق (hahamlık, “rabbinate”)
Descendants
- Turkish: haham
- → Armenian: խախամ (xaxam)
- → Romanian: haham
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “haham”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1837
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خاخام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 525
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “haham”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خاخام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 818
Persian
Alternative forms
- حاخام (hâxâm)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew חָכָם (ḥāḵām). Compare Arabic حَاخَام (ḥāḵām).
Noun
خاخام • (xâxâm) (plural خاخامها (xâxâm-hâ))
- (Judaism) rabbi, Rabbi