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Wholly regular from Arabicشَمْع(šamʕ, “wax; candle; torch”). The sound shift ش(ş) to چ(ç) has been of some frequency, also found in for example چلتیك(çeltik, “rice”), چمشیر(çimşir, “box”). The match with Chinese杉 (MC sream, “fire; pine”) is probably a coincidence.
Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “436. ČAM”, 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vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 106