ханым

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Bashkir

Etymology

From Persian خانم (xânom, madame, Mrs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ха‧ным

Noun

ханым (xanım)

  1. mistress, madame
  2. (used in postposition) form of polite address for a married woman

Declension

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic حانىم
Cyrillic ханым
Latin xanym
Yañalif xanьm

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian خانوم (xānūm), خانم (xānum).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χɑ.nəm/
  • Hyphenation: ха‧ным

Noun

ханым (xanym)

  1. mistress, madame, lady
  2. queen
Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χɑ.nəm/
  • Hyphenation: ха‧ным

Noun

ханым (xanym)

  1. first-person singular possessed form of хан (xan, khan)

Ubykh

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خانم (hanim).

Pronunciation

Noun

ханым (xanəm) (plural ханымԯа)

  1. madame, lady