دخمه

See also: دخمہ‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (daxme).

Noun

دخمه • (dahme)

vault, an underground burial chamber for the dead
mausoleum, a large stately tomb housing various graves
(Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence
Roman candle, a traditional type of firework

Descendants

Turkish: dahme

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dahme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1078
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دخمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 566
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Sepulchrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1543
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دخمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2037
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دخمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 892

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /daxma/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /daxma/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /dæxme/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /daxma/

Noun

Iranian Persian	دخمه
Dari	دخمه
Tajik	дахма (daxma)

دخمه • (daxme)

tomb
(Zoroastrianism) dakhma, tower of silence

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: dəxmə
→ Ottoman Turkish: دخمه‎ (dahme)
- Turkish: dahme
→ Urdu: دخمہ‎ (daxma)
→ Uzbek: daxma

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دخمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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