صومون
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- صمون (somun)
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek ψωμίν (psōmín) whence Greek ψωμί (psomí, “bread”), from Ancient Greek ψωμός (psōmós, “morsel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈmun/
Noun
صومون • (somun)
- a round slab of bread, a loaf, a bread roll
- an other slab, pig or solid block, particularly if of metal
- nut of a screw-bolt
Derived terms
- صومونجی (somuncu, occupational noun)
Descendants
- Turkish: somun
- → Gulf Arabic: صمون (ṣammūn)
- → Armenian: սոմուն (somun), սոմին (somin)
- → Bulgarian: сому̀н (somùn), саму̀н (samùn)
- → Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: semûn
- Central Kurdish: سهمون (semun)
- → Macedonian: сомун (somun), самун (samun)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: со̀мӯн, са̀мӯн
- Latin: sòmūn, sàmūn
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صومون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2988
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “صومون”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 574a