برِٛمِج

Kashmiri

Alternative forms

برٛیٖمدوٗ‎ (brīmdū), برِٛملہ‎ (brimla), برٛوٗمیٖج‎ (brūmīj)

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit *vr̥mra (“globular fruit, walnut”).[1] But compare Middle Armenian բռնչի (bṙnčʿi, “Celtis”), բռինչ (bṙinčʿ, “fruit of Celtis”), Old Georgian ბრინჯი (brinǯi, “Celtis”).

Noun

برِٛمِج • (brimij) f (Devanagari ब्रिमिज)

Caucasian hackberry, Celtis australis subsp. caucasica

Derived terms

برِٛمجہِ چونٛٹھ‎ (“the small fruit of this tree”)

Descendants

→ English: brimji

References

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*vr̥mra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 700

Further reading

Elmslie, William Jackson (1872), “Celtis caucasica”, in A Vocabulary of the Kashmírí Language, London: Church Missionary House, page 10b
Grierson, George Abraham (1932), “برِٛمِج”, in A dictionary of the Kashmiri language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 123

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