بامیه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed either from Persian بامیه (bâmiye) or Arabic بَامِيَا (bāmiyā), بَامِيَة (bāmiya, okra).[1][2]

Noun

بامیه • (bamya or bamye) (definite accusative بامیه‌یی (bamyayı, bamyeyi), plural بامیه‌لر (bamyalar, bamyeler))

  1. okra, ladies' fingers, any flowering plant of the species Abelmoschus esculentus and its seed pod

Derived terms

  • بامیه‌جی (bamyacı, grower or seller of okra)
  • سلطانی بامیه (sultanî bamya, a fine variety of okra)
  • هند بامیه‌سی (hind bamyası, kenaf)

Descendants

  • Turkish: bamya, bamıya, bamile, bamiye, bamle, banya, mamya, mamye, manya
  • Albanian: bamje, bamjё
  • Armenian: բամիա (bamia)
  • Bulgarian: бамя (bamja), ба́бня (bábnja), ба́мия (bámija)
  • Greek: μπάμια (bámia)
  • Ladino: bamyas
  • Macedonian: бамја (bamja)
  • Romanian: bamă
  • Russian: ба́мия (bámija)
  • Serbo-Croatian: ба̀мија / bàmija, бамја / bamja, бамља / bamlja
  • Ukrainian: ба́мія (bámija)
  • Yiddish: באַמיע (bamye)

References

  1. ^ Tietze, Andreas (2002), “bamya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 275
  2. ^ Anikin, A. E. (2008), “бамия”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 166

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَامِيَة (bāmiya), of unknown origin; See there for more.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bāmiya
Dari reading? bāmiya
Iranian reading? bâmiye
Tajik reading? bomiya

Noun

بامیه • (bāmiya / bâmiye) (Tajik spelling бомия)

  1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus
  2. tulumba