لوقوم
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- لقوم
Etymology
From Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥa(t) al-ḥulqūm, “throat comfort”).
Noun
لوقوم • (lokum)
- locoum, Turkish delight
Derived terms
- لوقومجی (lokumcu)
Descendants
- Turkish: lokum
- → Armenian: լոխում (loxum)
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لوقوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1646