حمایل

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Ottoman Turkish

حمایل

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَائِل (ḥamāʔil), plural form of حِمَالَة (ḥimāla, “suspenders, hanger; amulet”).

Noun

حمایل • (hamayıl)

shoulder belt, crossbelt, any belt, band, or sash worn over one's shoulder
Synonym: اوموز قایشی (omuz kayışı)
baldric, a broad belt used to hold a sword worn diagonally from shoulder to hip
Quran or similar book, or a charm or amulet carried suspended in its case over one shoulder
(by extension) amulet, charm, talisman, any magical object providing protection

Descendants

Turkish: hamaylı
→ Albanian: hajmali
→ Middle Armenian: համայիլ (hamayil), համաիլ (hamail)
- Armenian: համայիլ (hamayil), հմայիլ (hmayil)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: хама̀јлија

Latin script: hamàjlija

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hamayl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1857
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hamaîl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 382
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حمائل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 518
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Balteum”, 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 113
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حمایل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1805
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حمایل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 805

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَائِل (ḥamāʔil).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key):

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key):
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key):

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key):

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key):

Readings
Classical reading^?	hamāyil
Dari reading^?	hamāyil
Iranian reading^?	hamâyel
Tajik reading^?	hamoyil

Noun

حمایل • (hamâyel)

baldric, shoulder belt, crossbelt; belt, band, or sash worn over one's shoulder
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 329”, in دیوان حافظ‎:
  جوزا سحر نهاد حمایل برابرم
  یعنی غلام شاهم و سوگند می‌خورم
  jawzā sahar nihād hamāyil barābaram
  ya'nī ğulām-i šāham u sawgand mē-xwaram
  At dawn, Gemini put on his baldric while facing me;
  That means, "I am the king's slave, and I swear my oath."
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “حمایل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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