بامیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing either from Persian بامیه‎ (bâmiye) or Arabic بَامِيَا‎ (bāmiyā), بَامِيَة‎ (bāmiya, “okra”).[1][2][3]

Noun

بامیه • (bamya)

  1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

Descendants
  • Turkish: bamya, bamıya, bamile, bamiye, bamle, banya, mamya, mamye, manya
  • → Armenian: բամիա (bamia)
  • → Greek: μπάμια (bámia)
  • → Ladino: bamyas
  • → Albanian: bamje, bamjё
  • → Romanian: bamă
  • → Bulgarian: бамя (bamja), ба́бня (bábnja), ба́мия (bámija)
  • → Macedonian: бамја (bamja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ба̀мија / bàmija, бамја / bamja, бамља / bamlja
  • → Russian: ба́мия (bámija)
  • → Ukrainian: ба́мія (bámija)

References
  1. Tietze, Andreas (2002), “bamya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 275
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-07-24), “bamya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  3. Anikin, A. E. (2008), “бамия”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 166

Persian

Etymology

The sweet is named for its resemblance to the vegetable.

Noun

بامیه • (bâmiye)

  1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus
  2. tulumba
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