صالقم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *salkım (“bunch of grapes”), probably related to *sark- (“to hang loosely”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani salxım and Crimean Tatar salqım.

Noun

صالقم • (salkım) (definite accusative صالقمی (salkımı), plural صالقملر (salkımlar))

  1. (botany) bunch, cluster, clump, a group of similar things that are close to each other, usually of grapes or flowers
    Synonym: خوشه (hoşa)
  2. (military) shrapnel, an anti-personnel artillery shell which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls
    Synonym: شراپنل (şrapnel)
  3. (historical) grapeshot, canister shot, a cluster or collection of small iron balls packed tightly in a canvas bag

Adjective

صالقم • (salkım) (comparative دخی صالقم (dahı salkım), superlative اك صالقم (eñ salkım))

  1. (botany) botryoidal, botryoid, having the form or appearance of a bunch of grapes or of a cluster of flowers

Derived terms

  • آق صالقم (ak salkım, “black locust, false acacia”)
  • صاری صالقم (sarı salkım, “laburnum”)
  • صالقم آتش (salkım ateş, “kind of firework”)
  • صالقم سوكوت (salkım söğüt, “weeping willow”)
  • صالقم صاچاق (salkım saçak, “kind of eaves”)
  • صالقم طوپی (salkım topu, “cannon for scattering missiles”)
  • صالقم كوپه (salkım küpe, “clustered earring”)
  • صارقمق (sarkmak, “to hang loosely”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: salkım
  • → Albanian: sallgam
  • → Armenian: սալխըմ (salxəm)
  • → Bulgarian: салкъ́м (salkǎ́m)
  • → Romanian: salcâm

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “salkım”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 826

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