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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَجَامَة (ḥajāma, “cupping”).
Noun
حجامت • (hacâmet or hacâmat) (definite accusative حجامتی (hacâmeti), plural حجامتلر (hacâmetler))
- (medicine) cupping, the operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot
Derived terms
- حجامت اولمق (hacâmet olmak, “to be cupped, scarified”)
- حجامت ایتمك (hacâmet etmek, “to cup, scarify”)
- حجامت بوینوزی (hacâmet boynuzu, “cupping horn”)
- حجامت زنبركی (hacâmet zembereği, “cupper's spring lancet box”)
- حجامت شیشهسی (hacâmet şişesi, “cupping glass”)
- حجامتجی (hacâmetci, “cupper, scarificator”)
- عرب حجامتی (ʼarab hacâmeti, “scarification with a razor”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hacamat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1826
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hacâmet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 364
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حجامت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 498
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cucurbitas applicare”, 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 307
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حجامت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1727
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hacamat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حجامت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 765