հանըմ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خانم (hanım).

Pronunciation

Noun

հանըմ • (hanəm) (Western Armenian)

  1. lady
  2. miss (especially used to refer to a Turkish lady)
    Սալիհա հանըմSaliha hanəma character from a novel by Yervant Odian
    Մելիհա Նուրի հանըմMeliha Nuri hanəma character from a novel by Zabel Yesayan

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “հանըմ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 208
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