им-том

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Bashkir

Баланы һыу менән имләү.
Healing a child with enchanted water.

Etymology

A paired term, where the first component derives from Proto-Turkic *em (medicine, cure), and the second from a Mongolic source (compare Mongolian дом (dom, spell, folk medicine)), from Proto-Mongolic *dom (spell, divination).

Compare to Kazakh ем-дом (em-dom, traditional healing practices), Southern Altai эм-том (em-tom, medicine), Turkmen em-dem (traditional healing practices), Khakas им-том (im-tom, medicine), Tuvan эм-таң (em-tañ, medicine).

Pronunciation

Noun

им-том (im-tom)

  1. (folk medicine, folk magic) the traditional practice of healing people involving incantations, rites, smoking herbs, magic use of natural substances etc.

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