esham

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اسهام (esham), presuming a plural ***أَسْهَام (***ʔashām) of Arabic سَهْم (sahm), while in Arabic one uses, oddly contrary to this, the plural أَسْهُم (ʔashum) for “shares, stocks”, else verbal noun of form IV إِسْهَام (ʔishām, “to give a share in”).

Noun

esham (definite accusative eshamı, plural eshamlar)

  1. (finance) share
  2. (historical) annuities sold by the Ottoman treasury

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “esham”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسهام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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