بامیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing either from Persian (bâmiye) or Arabic بَامِيَا (bāmiyā), بَامِيَة (bāmiya, “okra”).[1][2][3]

Noun

بامیه • (bamya)

okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

Descendants

Turkish: bamya, bamıya, bamile, bamiye, bamle, banya, mamya, mamye, manya
→ Armenian: բամիա (bamia)
→ Greek: μπάμια (bámia)
→ Ladino: bamyas
→ Albanian: bamje, bamjё
→ Romanian: bamă
→ Bulgarian: бамя (bamja), ба́бня (bábnja), ба́мия (bámija)
→ Macedonian: бамја (bamja)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ба̀мија / bàmija, бамја / bamja, бамља / bamlja
→ Russian: ба́мия (bámija)
→ Ukrainian: ба́мія (bámija)
→ Yiddish: באַמיע (bamye)

References

Tietze, Andreas (2002) “bamya”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 275
Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-07-24) “bamya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Anikin, A. E. (2008) “бамия”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 2 (ба – бдынъ), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 166

Persian

Etymology

The sweet is named for its resemblance to the vegetable.

Noun

بامیه • (bâmiye)

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