саман

• шама̄н (şamān) — sh-dialects
• хама̄н (hamān) — h-dialects

From Proto-Tungusic *samān (“shaman”), compare Nanai сама̄н (samān) and Manchu ᠰᠠᠮᠠᠨ (saman) etc. Probably from Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa, “ascetic, monk, Sramana”) or Pali samaṇa, likely via Middle Chinese 沙門 (shāmén).

An alternative theory derives the Proto-Tungusic word from an ancestor of Nivkh чам (ț’am, “eagle, shaman”), but the direction of the borrowing is usually taken to be the reverse.

• IPA^(key): /samaːn/

сама̄н • (samān)

1. shaman

• сама̄нмӣ (samānmī, “to shamanize”)
• самасик (samasik, “shaman robes”)

• Vasilevič, G. M. (1958) “сама̄н”, in Эвэнкийско-Русский словарь [Evenki-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: GIS, page 342/2

From a Turkic language. See Turkish saman.

• IPA^(key):

сама́н • (samán) m inan (genitive сама́на, nominative plural сама́ны, genitive plural сама́нов, relational adjective сама́нный)

1. adobe (unburnt brick)

   по ме́ре затвердевания, сама́н скла́дывали в колонку с зазо́ром, что́бы быстре́е высыха́л

   po mére zatverdevanija, samán skládyvali v kolonku s zazórom, štóby bystréje vysyxál

   as soon as they hardened, the adobes were piled up in independent columns so that they dried faster

2. air brick
   • 1887, А. П. Берже, Посольство А. П. Ермолова в Персию :

     одновременно с прибы́тием посо́льства в сама́н-арки, бы́ли доста́влены в султаниэ импера́торские пода́рки

     odnovremenno s pribýtijem posólʹstva v samán-arki, býli dostávleny v sultanie imperátorskije podárki

     simultaneous to the arrival of the embassy to the air brick archway, gifts were delivered to the imperial sultanate

• сама́новый (samánovyj)

From Persian زمان (zamân).

саман • (saman)

1. time

   Synonym: ӧй (öy)

V. verbickij, editor (1884), “саман”, in Slovarʹ Altajskago i Aladagskago narečij tjurkskago jazyka [Altaian and Aladagian language Dictionary], Kazan', →ISBN