قامش

Ottoman Turkish

قامش

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamïĺ; cognate with Azerbaijani qamış, Bashkir ҡамыш (qamış), Chuvash хӑмӑл (hămăl), Kazakh қамыс (qamys), Kyrgyz камыш (kamış), Tatar камыш (qamış), Turkmen gamyş, Uzbek qamish and Yakut хомус (qomus)

Noun

قامش • (kamış)

1. (in general) reed, any of various grass-like plants that grow near water

   Synonyms: قصب (kasab), كلیز (kiliz), نی (ney)

2. common reed (Phragmites australis)
3. bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris)
4. any instrument made of reed, as a bobbin or the reed of a shuttle
5. (colloquial) penis, the male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse

   Synonym: ابره (ibre)

6. kind of shellfish (Magilus antiquus)

Derived terms

• شكر قامشی (şeker kamışı, “sugar cane”)
• قامشجق (kamışcık, “blowpipe”)
• قامشلق (kamışlık, “place overgrown with reeds”)
• قامشلی (kamışlı, “reedy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kamış
• → Armenian: խամիշ (xamiš), կամիշ (kamiš)
• → Bulgarian: камъ́ш (kamǎ́š)
• → Macedonian: камиш (kamiš)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀миш

  Latin script: kàmiš

• → Slovene: kaníš, kamež

Proper noun

قامش • (Kamış)

1. name of several populated places in Anatolia.

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قامش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arundo”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 88
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قامش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3598
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kamış”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قامش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1425