چام

See also: حام‎, جام‎, and خام‎

Munji

Noun

چام (čām)

  1. eye

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Wholly regular from Arabic شَمْع‎ (šamʕ, “wax; candle; torch”). The sound shift ش‎ (ş) to چ‎ (ç) has been of some frequency, also found in for example چلتیك‎ (çeltik, “rice”), چمشیر‎ (çimşir, “box”). The match with Chinese 杉 (MC ʃˠɛm, “fire; pine”) is probably a coincidence.

Noun

چام • (çam)

  1. fir
  2. pine

Derived terms
  • چاملق‎ (çamlık)

Descendants
  • Turkish: çam
  • → Albanian: çam
  • → Aromanian: ciam
  • → Bulgarian: чам (čam)
  • → Macedonian: чам (čam)
  • → Romanian: ceam
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: ча̏м
    Latin: čȁm

References
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “436. ČAM”, 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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 106
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