دخمه
See also: دخمہ
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).
Noun
دخمه • (dahme)
- vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
- mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
- (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
- Roman candle, a traditional type of firework
Descendants
- Turkish: dahme
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sepulchrum”, 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 1543
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دخمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2037
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /daxma/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /daxma/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /dæxme/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /daxma/
Noun
| Dari | دخمه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | дахма (daxma) |
دخمه • (daxme)
- tomb
- (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: dəxmə
- → Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
- Turkish: dahme
- → Urdu: دخمہ (daxma)
- → Uzbek: daxma
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دخمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim