چام

See also: حام, جام, and خام

Munji

Noun

چام (čām)

  1. eye

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Wholly regular from Arabic شَمْع (šamʕ, “wax; candle; torch”). The sound shift ش (ş) to چ (ç) has been of some frequency, also found in for example چلتیك (çeltik, “rice”), چمشیر (çimşir, “box”). The match with Chinese 杉 (MC sream, “fire; pine”) is probably a coincidence.

Noun

چام • (çam)

  1. fir
  2. pine

Derived terms
  • چاملق (çamlık)

Descendants
  • Turkish: çam
  • → Albanian: çam
  • → Aromanian: ciam
  • → Bulgarian: чам (čam)
  • → Macedonian: чам (čam)
  • → Romanian: ceam
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ча̏м
    Latin script: čȁm

References
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “436. ČAM”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 106
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