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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رُعَام (ruʕām, “glanders”).
Noun
رعام • (ruʿam)
- glanders, an infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia
- Synonyms: صقاغی (sakağı), مانقفا (mankafa)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ruam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3978
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ruâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1075
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رعام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 624
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رعام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2329