لوقوم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

لقوم

Etymology

From Arabic رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم (rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, “throat comfort”).

Noun

لوقوم • (lokum)

locoum, Turkish delight

Derived terms

لوقومجی (lokumcu)

Descendants

Turkish: lokum (see there for further descendants)
→ Albanian: llokum
→ Armenian: լոխում (loxum)
→ Bulgarian: локум (lokum)
→ English: locoum
→ French: loukoum, lokoum
→ Greek: λουκούμι (loukoúmi) (see there for further descendants)
→ Italian: locum
→ Ladino: lokum
→ Macedonian: локум (lokum)
→ Serbo-Croatian: lòkum／ло̀кум

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوقوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1644

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