كومج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • كومچ (gümeç)
  • կիւմէճ (gümec), կէօմէճ (gömec) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kömeč (“bread baked in the ashes; honeycomb”), a word which Clauson derives from the root *köm- (“to bury”).[1]

Noun

كومج • (gümec) (definite accusative كومجی (gümeci), plural كومجلر (gümecler))

  1. honeycomb, a substance made by bees from beeswax, which has exagonal cells to hold their larvae
    Synonyms: پتك (petek), شانه (şane)

Derived terms

  • ابه كومجی (ebe gümeci, “mallow”)
  • كومج بالی (gümec balı, “honey in the comb”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: gümeç

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kömeç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 722

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