دخمه
See also: دخمہ
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دخمه (daxme).
Noun
دخمه • (dahme)
- vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
- mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
- (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
- Roman candle, a traditional type of firework
Descendants
- Turkish: dahme
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sepulchrum”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1543
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دخمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2037
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /dax.ˈma/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪äx.mä]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪æx.me]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d̪äχ.mä]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | daxma |
| Dari reading? | daxma |
| Iranian reading? | daxme |
| Tajik reading? | daxma |
Noun
| Dari | دخمه |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | дахма |
دخمه • (daxme)
- tomb
- (Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: dəxmə
- → Ottoman Turkish: دخمه (dahme)
- Turkish: dahme
- → Urdu: دخمہ (daxma)
- → Uzbek: daxma
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دخمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim