بقم

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See also: نقم, يقم, and تقم

Arabic

Etymology

From Persian بکم (bakam).[1]

Noun

بَقَّم (baqqamm

  1. Caesalpinieae tribe plants used for their brazilin-containing woods
    Synonym: عَنْدَم (ʕandam)

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: պաղղամ (paġġam), բաղամ (baġam)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بقم (bakam, bakkam) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ King, Anya (2015) “The New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition: The Pre-Islamic Context”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 135, number 3, →DOI, page 506 of 499–528

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բաղամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 395–396
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بقم”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 104
  • Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt, 2nd edition, volume III, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople, page 402
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بقم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 143
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بقم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 237
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 127–132
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بقم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَقَّم (baqqam).

Noun

بقم (bakam, bakkam)

  1. red paint from the plants of the Caesalpinieae tribe used for their brazilin-containing woods; with آغاجی (ağacı) the plant itself
    • 1914, Harun Reşit Kocacan, Muhtasar ilm-i kımya: Darülmuallimin ve Darülfünun ile mekâtib-i iʼdadiye sınıflarına mahsustur, İstanbul: Kitaphane-yi İslâm ve Askerı̂, page 254:
      طبیعی بویالرك اك مهملری كوك بویا ، بقام اغاجی ، چیوید ، زغفران جهرى وقرمزدر .
      tabiʼi boyalarıñ eñ mühimleri kök boya, bakkam ağacı, ‍çivid, zağferan cehri ve kırmızdır.
      The most important natural dyes are madder, bloodwood, indigo, saffron, yellowberry, and kermes.

Descendants

References

  • Alkayış, Fatih (2007) “bakam”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), doctoral thesis, Kayseri: T.C. Erciyes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, page 210
  • Anikin, A. E. (2008) “бакан”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 97
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بقم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 271a
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “153. BǍCǍ́ME sb. f.”, 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 85