خامور
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Persian خمیر (xamir, “dough, paste”), from Arabic خَمِير (ḵamīr, “leavened dough”).
Alternative forms
- خمور (hamur)
- խամիր (hamir), խամուր (hamur), համուր (hamur) — Armeno-Turkish
Noun
خامور • (hamur) (definite accusative خاموری (hamuru), plural خامورلر (hamurlar))
- dough
- Synonym: عجین (ʼacin)
- leaven, yeast
- Synonym: مایه (maya, maye)
- (loosely) paste
- (strictly) paste, pastry, pastry dough (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Derived terms
- خامور اولمق (hamur olmak, “to lose energy”, literally “to become dough”)
- خامور ایشی (hamur işi, “pastry”)
- خامور تختهسی (hamur tahtası, “paste-board”)
- خامورجی (hamurcu, “pastry cook; kneader”)
- خامورسز (hamursuz, “unleavened”)
- خامورلامق (hamurlamak, “to paste or lute”)
- خامورلانمق (hamurlanmak, “to be pasted or luted”)
- كاغد خاموری (kağıd hamuru, “pulp, papier-mâché”)
Descendants
- Turkish: hamur
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “خمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 712
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1861
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “خمور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 212a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 551
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Massa”, 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[3], Vienna, column 1013
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خمور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1945
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “dough”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 146b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hamur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خامور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825
Etymology 2
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Proper noun
خامور • (hamur)
Descendants
- Turkish: Hamur
Further reading
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- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Hamur”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خامور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 825
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Hamur”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][7], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 327