շամամ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Armenian շամամ (šamam), from Arabic شَمَّام (šammām).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

շամամ (šamam) (dialectal)

  1. apple melon (Cucumis melo var. dudaim)
    Hypernym: սեխ (sex)
  2. (poetic) breast
    • 1661 – 1722, Yovnatʻan Nałaš, Tałer [Poems] :[1][2]
      Շամամներիդ համար դառն եմ,
      Թո՛ղ, որ ձեռս մէջն խառնեմ,
      Ինձ ծախեմ՝ էդ բախչէդ առնեմ։
      Զալում, թո՛ղ՝ ես
      Եմիշ քաղեմ,
      Մէկ ծիծաղեմ:
      Šamamnerid hamar daṙn em,
      Tʻóġ, or jeṙs mēǰn xaṙnem,
      Inj caxem, ēd baxčʻēd aṙnem.
      Zalum, tʻóġ, es
      Emiš kʻaġem,
      Mēk cicaġem:
      • Translation by S. Peter Cowe
        I'm desperate for your melons.
        Let my hand them go among them,
        Let me sell myself and buy the orchard of yours.
        O unjust one, Let me
        pick some fruit
        and have a giggle.

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Naġaš Hovnatʻan (1983) A. Mnacʻakanyan, editor, Taġer [Poems] (Hay kʻnarergutʻyun), Yerevan: Sovetakan groġ, pages 48–49
  2. ^ Cowe, S. Peter (2019) “The object of Ałtʿamarʿci’s affections”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 74

Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “շամամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press