قامش

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Ottoman Turkish

قامش

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamïĺ; cognate with Azerbaijani qamış, Bashkir ҡамыш (qamış), Chuvash хӑмӑл (hămăl), Kazakh қамыс (qamys), Kyrgyz камыш (kamış), Tatar камыш (qamış), Turkmen gamyş, Uzbek qamish and Yakut хомус (qomus)

Noun

قامش (kamış)

  1. (in general) reed, any of various grass-like plants that grow near water
    Synonyms: قصب (kasab), كلیز (kiliz), نی (ney)
  2. common reed (Phragmites australis)
  3. bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris)
  4. any instrument made of reed, as a bobbin or the reed of a shuttle
  5. (colloquial) penis, the male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse
    Synonym: ابره (ibre)
  6. kind of shellfish (Magilus antiquus)

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Proper noun

قامش (Kamış)

  1. name of several populated places in Anatolia.

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arundo”, 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 88
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3598
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kamış”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425