کشمش
Persian
Alternative forms
- کشمیش (kišmîš)
Etymology
Unknown; possibly borrowed from Turkic, as the green, seedless variety used is said to originate in Bokhara, Uzbekistan.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): [kʲeʃˈmeʃ]
- (Tehrani) IPA(key): [kʲiːʃˈmiːʃ]
Noun
کشمش • (kešmeš)
- raisin, sultana raisin, currant
- sultana grape (Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera cv. Sultana)
Descendants
- → Arabic: كِشْمِش (kišmiš)
- → Assamese: কিছমিছ (kisomis)
- → Azerbaijani: kişmiş
- → Bengali: কিশমিশ (kiśmiś)
- → Chagatai: كِشْمِش
- → Georgian: ქიშმიში (kišmiši)
- → Javanese: kismis
- → Malay: kismis (کيسميس)
- Indonesian: kismis
- → Brunei Malay: kismis
- → Pashto: کشمش (kišmiš)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كشمش (kişmiş)
- Turkish: kişmiş
- → Armenian: քիշմիշ (kʿišmiš), քիշնիշ (kʿišniš)
- → Tatar: кишмиш (kişmiş)
- → Russian: кишмиш (kišmiš)
- → Turkmen: kişmiş
- → Yagnobi: кишмиш (kišmiš)
References
- Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 231