شمه

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Mazanderani

Determiner

شمه (šeme)

  1. your

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَمَّة (šamma).

Noun

شمه • (şemme)

  1. sniff, an instance of sniffing, a short inhalation through the nose
  2. (figuratively) sniff, a tiny amount or slight sample of something
Descendants
  • Turkish: şemme

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian شمه (šeme, “colostrum”).

Noun

شمه • (şeme)

  1. beestings, colostrum, the first milk drawn from an animal
    Synonym: آغز (ağız)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2864
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic شَمَّة (šamma).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? šamma
Dari reading? šamma
Iranian reading? šamme
Tajik reading? šamma

Noun

شمه • (šamme)

  1. inkling, slight notion; very small quantity
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 121:
      قصهٔ فرهاد و مجنون چند بر من خواندند
      کان همه شمه از حال پریشان منست
      qissa-yi farhād u majnūn čand bar man xwāndand
      k-ān hama šamma az hāl-i parēšān-i man ast
      They read to me the tales of Farhad and Majnun for a while,
      All of which are a mere inkling of my distraught condition.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (archaic, original sense) sniff (with the nose)

Etymology 2

Noun

شمه • (šeme or šemme)

(archaic)

  1. colostrum
    Synonyms: شیرماک (širmâk), آغوز (âğuz)
  2. clotted cream, kaymak
    Synonym: سرشیر (saršir)

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شمه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
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