հանըմ

Armenian

Alternative forms
  • խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خانم‎ (hanım).

Noun

հանըմ • (hanəm) (Western Armenian)

  1. lady
  2. miss (especially used to refer to a Turkish lady)
    Սալիհա հանըմ ― Saliha hanəm ― a character from a novel by Yervant Odian
    Մելիհա Նուրի հանըմ ― Meliha Nuri hanəm ― a character from a novel by Zabel Yesayan

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902) , “հանըմ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The Influence of Turkish on Armenian and Words Borrowed from Turkish in the Vernacular Armenian Language of Constantinople in Comparison with the Dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow, Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 208
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