صومون

Ottoman Turkish

صومونلر
صومون

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ψωμίν (psōmín) whence Greek ψωμί (psomí, “bread”), from Ancient Greek ψωμός (psōmós, “morsel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈmun/

Noun

صومون • (somun)

  1. a round slab of bread, a loaf, a bread roll
  2. an other slab, pig or solid block, particularly if of metal
  3. nut of a screw-bolt

Derived terms

  • صومونجی (somuncu, occupational noun)

Descendants

  • Turkish: somun
  • → Gulf Arabic: صمون (ṣammūn)
  • → Standard Arabic: صَمُولَة (ṣamūla), صَامُولَة (ṣāmūla)
  • → Armenian: սոմուն (somun), սոմին (somin)
  • → Bulgarian: сому́н (somún)
  • Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: semûn
    → Central Kurdish: سەمون (semun)
  • → Macedonian: сомун (somun)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: со̀мӯн, са̀мӯн
    Latin script: 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 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 574a
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