چیم

Ottoman Turkish
چیم

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čïm (“sod, turf; meadow”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani çim (“turf, sod”), Chagatai چيم (čim, “turf, sod”), Kazakh шым (şym, “turf, sod”) and Kyrgyz чым (cım), while Armenian ճիմ (čim) and Udi ճում (čum) are both Turkic borrowings.

Noun

چیم • (çim)

  1. sod, turf, the stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass
  2. grassplot, lawn, ground (generally around the house) covered with grass kept closely mown
  3. fresh-sprouted grain, any grain that has recently started to develope new growths from its seeds
Derived terms
  • چیمجی (çimci, “cutter or seller of turfs and sods”)
  • چیملمك (çimlemek, “to turf”)
  • چیملندرمك (çimlendirmek, “to make or let seeds sprout”)
  • چیملنمك (çimlenmek, “to sprout”)
Descendants
  • Turkish: çim

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čïm”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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Etymology 2

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Noun

چیم • (çim)

  1. The Persian letter چ.

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