خانم

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خان (han, “king, ruler”) + a feminine suffix for nobility titles.[1]

Noun

خانم • (hanım)

  1. lady, woman
  2. Miss, Mrs, Lady
  3. wife

Derived terms
  • خانمجق (hanımcık)
  • خانملق (hanımlık)

Descendants
  • Ladino: hanum
  • Turkish: hanım
  • → Egyptian Arabic: هَانِم (hānim)
  • → North Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
  • → South Levantine Arabic: خَانُم (xānom)
  • → Armenian: հանըմ (hanəm), խանում (xanum), խանըմ (xanəm)
  • → Bulgarian: ханъ́ма (hanǎ́ma)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: хану̀ма
    Latin script: hanùma

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hanım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Persian

Alternative forms
  • خانوم (xânum)

Etymology

From خان (xân) and the genitive enclitic -em, or perhaps from Persian کانم (kânom, “a married woman”).

Pronunciation
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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xɑː.nʊ́m]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xɑː.nʊ́m]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xɔː.núm]

Readings
Classical reading? xānum
Dari reading? xānum
Iranian reading? xânom
Tajik reading? xonum

Noun
Dari خانم
Iranian Persian
Tajik хонум

خانُم • (xânom) (plural خانم‌ها (xânom-hâ))

  1. Mrs, Ms
  2. lady
    Synonym: بانو (bânu)
  3. madam (used in Iran especially in the 19th century)

Descendants

Punjabi

Etymology

From Classical Persian خانم (xānum).

Noun

خانَم • (xānam) f

  1. khanum

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian خانم (xānum).

Noun

خانَم • (xānam) f (Hindi spelling ख़ानम)

  1. a lady, a woman of rank, a princess; title of the wife of a ḵẖān

Further reading
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خانم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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