چام
See also: حام, جام, and خام
Munji
Noun
چام (čām)
- eye
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Wholly regular from Arabic شَمْع (šamʿ, “wax; candle; torch”). The sound shift ش (ş) to چ (ç) has been of some frequency, also found in for example چلتیك (çeltik, “rice”), چمشیر (çimşir, “box”). The match with Chinese 杉 (MC ʃˠɛm, “fire; pine”) is probably a coincidence.
Noun
چام • (çam)
- fir
- pine
Derived terms
- چاملق (çamlık)
Descendants
- Turkish: çam
- → Albanian: çam
- → Aromanian: ciam
- → Bulgarian: чам (čam)
- → Macedonian: чам (čam)
- → Romanian: ceam
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ча̏м
- Latin: čȁm
References
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “436. ČAM”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 106