ʒamutro

Romani

Alternative forms

• džamutro (Pan-Vlax)
• jamutro
• zhamutro (Anglicized)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit *जामात्र (jāmātra). Related to Sanskrit जामातृ (jāmātṛ).^[1] Cognate with Kashmiri زامتُر (zāmtur) and Sindhi ڄاٽو (j̄āṭo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.mu.ˈtro/, /ʑa.mu.ˈtro/

Noun

ʒamutro m (accusative ʒamutres, nominative plural ʒamutre, accusative plural ʒamutren)

1. (International Standard)
   1. son-in-law^[2][3]
   2. bridegroom^[2][3]

See also

• sastro
• sasuj
• bori

References

1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jāˊmātr̥”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 286
2. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džamutró”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 82b
3. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o ʒamutr/o, -es m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 386b