قامش

Ottoman Turkish
قامش

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamïĺ; cognate with Azerbaijani qamış, Bashkir ҡамыш (qamış), Chuvash хӑмӑл (hămăl), Kazakh қамыс (qamys), Kyrgyz камыш (kamış), Tatar камыш (qamış), Turkmen gamyş, Uzbek qamish and Yakut хомус (qomus)

Noun

قامش • (kamış)

  1. (in general) reed, any of various grass-like plants that grow near water
    Synonyms: قصب (kasab), كلیز (kiliz), نی (ney)
  2. common reed (Phragmites australis)
  3. bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris)
  4. any instrument made of reed, as a bobbin or the reed of a shuttle
  5. (colloquial) penis, the male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse
    Synonym: ابره (ibre)
  6. kind of shellfish (Magilus antiquus)

Derived terms
  • شكر قامشی (şeker kamışı, “sugar cane”)
  • قامشجق (kamışcık, “blowpipe”)
  • قامشلق (kamışlık, “place overgrown with reeds”)
  • قامشلی (kamışlı, “reedy”)

Descendants
  • Turkish: kamış
  • → Armenian: խամիշ (xamiš), կամիշ (kamiš)
  • → Bulgarian: камъ́ш (kamǎ́š)
  • → Macedonian: камиш (kamiš)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̀миш
    Latin script: kàmiš
  • → Slovene: kaníš, kamež

Proper noun

قامش • (Kamış)

  1. name of several populated places in Anatolia.

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arundo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 88
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3598
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kamış”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425
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