بادم

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بادام (badam), بایام (bayam)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَادَام (bādām).

Noun

بادم • (badem)

1. almond, the nut produced by the small tree Prunus amygdalus

   Synonym: لوز (levz)

Derived terms

• بادم آغاجی (badem ağacı, “almond tree”)
• بادم حلواسی (badem helvası, “a dessert made of almonds”)
• بادم پارمق (badem parmak, “index finger”)
• بادمجك (bademcik, “tonsil”)
• بادملك (bademlik, “almond plantation”)
• بادمی (bademi, “almond-shaped”)

Descendants

• Turkish: badem
• → Albanian: bajame
• → Adyghe: бадэ (badɛ)
• → Bulgarian: баде́м (badém)
• → Crimean Tatar: badem
• → Macedonian: бадем (badem)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бадем, ба̀јам, бајем (regional)

  Latin script: badem, bàjam, bajem (regional)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “badem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 419
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بادم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 233
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Amygdalum”, 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, Vienna, column 60
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بادام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 631
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “badem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بادم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 317

Persian

Noun

بادم • (bâdom)

1. (dialectal, Shiraz) alternative form of بادام (bâdâm, “almond”)

Southwestern Fars

Noun

بادم (bâdom)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) almond