عجمی

See also: عجمي‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَجَمِيّ‎ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ad͡ʒɛˈmiː]
  • (Western Rumelia) IPA(key): [ad͡ʒaˈmiː]

Noun

عجمی • (acemi)

  1. foreigner, barbarian
  2. a member of the corps of young pages in the palace, or at a special school for training
  3. a member of a special corps of recruits for the Janissaries
  4. untrained, unexperienced, novice

Adjective

عجمی • (acemi)

  1. see the noun

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: acemi
  • → Albanian: axhami
  • → Armenian: աճեմի (ačemi), ա̈ջա̈մի (äǰämi)
  • → Aromanian: agiami, agiamie, agiamit, agimit
  • → Bulgarian: аджами́я (adžamíja), аджеми́я (adžemíja), аджами́йски (adžamíjski), аджеми́йски (adžemíjski)
  • → Greek: ατζαμής (atzamís)
  • → Ladino: adjami
  • → Macedonian: аџамија (adžamija)
  • → Romanian: ageamiu
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: аџа̀мија, аџа̀мӣјскӣ, аџа̀млија
    Latin script: adžàmija, adžàmījskī, adžàmlija

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “عجمی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3223
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “26. AǦAMÍ sb. m. pl. aǧamitsǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 75

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَمِيّ‎ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /ʔad͡ʒaˈmi/

Adjective

Dari عجمی
Iranian Persian
Tajik аҷамӣ (ajamī)

عجمی • ('ajami)

  1. Ajami

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَجَمِيّ‎ (ʕajamiyy).

Pronunciation

Adjective

عجمی • (ajamī) (Hindi spelling अजमी)

  1. Ajami
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