خانم
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom خان (han, “king, ruler”) + a feminine suffix for nobility titles.[1]
Noun
editخانم • (hanım)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Ladino: hanum
- Turkish: hanım
- → Egyptian Arabic: هَانِم (hānim)
- → North Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
- → South Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
- → Armenian: հանըմ (hanəm), խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)
- → Bulgarian: ханъ́ма (hanǎ́ma)
- → Macedonian: анама (anama)
- → Romanian: hanâmă
- → Serbo-Croatian:
References
edit- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hanım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Persian
editAlternative forms
edit- خانوم (xânum)
Etymology
editFrom خان (xân) and the genitive enclitic -em, or perhaps from Persian کانم (kânom, “a married woman”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [xɑː.ˈnum]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [xɒː.nóm]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [χɔ.núm]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | xānum |
Dari reading? | xānum |
Iranian reading? | xânom |
Tajik reading? | xonum |
Noun
editDari | خانم |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | хонум |
خانُم • (xânom) (plural خانمها (xânom-hâ))
Descendants
editPunjabi
editEtymology
editFrom Classical Persian خانم (xānum).
Noun
editخانَم • (xānam) f
Urdu
editEtymology
editFrom Classical Persian خانم (xānum).
Noun
editخانَم • (xānam) f (Hindi spelling ख़ानम)
- a lady, a woman of rank, a princess; title of the wife of a ḵẖān
Further reading
edit- Platts, John T. (1884) “خانم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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