سجیم

Ottoman Turkish

سجیم

Alternative forms

• سجم (sicim), سیجیم (sicim)

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Classical Mongolian ᠰ‍ᠢ‍ᠴ‍ᠢ‍‍ᠮ (s‍i‍č‍i‍‍m, “rope”). Cognate with Azerbaijani sicim, Karachay-Balkar джиджим (cicim), Karakalpak şıjım, Nogai şıjım.

Noun

سجیم • (sicim)

1. string, twine, any strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together

   Synonym: قنب (kınnab)

Derived terms

• سجیم گبی (sicim gibi, “copious, profuse, of rain or tears”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sicim
• → Albanian: sixhim
• → Armenian: սիճիմ (sičim)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sicim”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4228
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سجیم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 265a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سجیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 667
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 14
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سجیم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2559
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sicim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سجیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1042