کشمش
Persian
Alternative forms
- کشمیش (kišmīš / kešmiš)
Etymology
Unknown; possibly borrowed from Turkic, as the green, seedless variety used is said to originate in Bokhara, Uzbekistan.[1] Compare Azerbaijani kişmiş (“raisin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /kiʃ.ˈmiʃ/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [kʰɪʃ.mɪ́ʃ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲeʃ.méʃ]
- (Tehrani) IPA(key): [kʰʲiːʃ.míːʃ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰiʃ.míʃ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | kišmiš |
| Dari reading? | kišmiš |
| Iranian reading? | kešmeš |
| Tajik reading? | kišmiš |
Noun
کشمش • (kišmiš / kešmeš) (Tajik spelling кишмиш)
- raisin, sultana raisin, currant
- Synonym: مویز (mawīz / maviz)
- sultana grape (Vitis vinifera subsp. vinifera cv. Sultana)
Descendants
- → Arabic: كِشْمِش (kišmiš)
- → Assamese: কিচমিচ (kismis)
- → Azerbaijani: kişmiş
- → Bengali: কিশমিশ (kiśmiś)
- → Chagatai: كِشْمِش (kišmiš)
- Uzbek: kishmish
- → Gujarati: કિશમિશ (kiśmiś)
- → Georgian: ქიშმიში (kišmiši)
- → Javanese: kismis
- → Malay: kismis
- → Pashto: کشمش (kišmiš)
- → Ottoman Turkish: كشمش (kişmiş), كشمشك (kişmişk)
- Turkish: kişmiş
- → Armenian: քիշմիշ (kʻišmiš), քիշնիշ (kʻišniš)
- → Tatar: кишмиш (kişmiş)
- → Russian: кишмиш (kišmiš)
- → Turkmen: kişmiş
- → Yagnobi: кишмиш (kišmiš)
References
- ^ Laufer, Berthold (1919) Sino-Iranica: Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in ancient Iran, with special reference to the history of cultivated plants and products (Fieldiana, Anthropology; 15), volume 3, Chicago: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, page 231
Further reading
- کشمش on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia fa