جام

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See also: حام, خام, and چام

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جام (jâm).

Pronunciation

Noun

جَام (jāmm (plural جَامَات (jāmāt) or جُوم (jūm) or أَجْوَام (ʔajwām))

  1. cup, bowl
  2. tray, platter

Declension

References

  • Gacek, Adam (2008) The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: A Glossary of Technical Terms, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “جام”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Gurani

Noun

جام (jām)

  1. mirror

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian جام (jâm).

Noun

جام (jāmm

  1. glass, pane

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جام (jâm, glass, pane).

Noun

جام (cam)

  1. glass, an amorphous and often transparent substance
    Synonym: صرچه (sırça)
  2. cup, glass, beaker, stoop, a vessel made of glass
    Synonyms: بارداق (bardak), ساغراق (saġrak) (glass)
  3. piece of glass applied to any particular purpose, as a watchglass, etc.
  4. integrated sheet of glass such as a window-pane, window-sash or window-valve, a bull's-eye of glass in a vault or dome etc.

Adjective

جام (cam)

  1. of glass, glassy, vitreous
    Synonym: صرچه (sırça)

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 745
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جام”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 177a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vitrum”, 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 1775
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1560
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “25. AǦAME sb. f. pl. aǧeń i aǧemurǐ; ǦAME”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 75
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 636

Pashto

Etymology

From Persian جام (jâm).

Pronunciation

Noun

جام (jâmm

  1. cup, goblet

Declension

Persian

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Etymology

From Middle Persian (ǰām, glass). Related to Avestan 𐬫𐬀𐬨𐬀 (yama, glass).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? jām
Dari reading? jām
Iranian reading? jâm
Tajik reading? jom
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

Dari جام
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҷом

جام (jâm) (plural جام‌ها (jâm-hâ))

  1. cup
  2. glass, pane

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Hassuri, Ali (1983) “Two Middle Persian Words”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 133, pages 145–148
  1. ^ The Silk Road Encyclopedia. (n.d.). United States: Seoul Selection.
  2. ^ The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. (1910). United Kingdom: Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, p. 248

Urdu

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian جام (jām).

Noun

جام (jāmm (Hindi spelling जाम)

  1. goblet; wine cup
  2. (loosely) glass; drinking vessel

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit जम्बु (jambu).

Noun

جام (jāmm (Hindi spelling जाम)

  1. rose apple
  2. guava
  3. night watch (for a period of three hours)
  4. son
Declension
    Declension of جام
singular plural
direct جام (jām) جام (jām)
oblique جام (jām) جاموں (jāmõ)
vocative جام (jām) جامو (jāmo)

References

  • جام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • جام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Pashto جام (jām).

Noun

جام (jām)

  1. stirrup