بادام

Kashmiri

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بادام (bâdâm, “almond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːdaːm/

Noun

بادام • (bādām) m

1. almond

Alternative forms

• بادَم (bādam)

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بادم (badem), بایام (bayam)

Etymology

From Persian بادام (bâdâm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɑˈdɑm]
• IPA^(key): [baˈdɛm]

Noun

بادام • (badam)

1. almond

Descendants

• Turkish: badem
• → Albanian: bajame
• → Adyghe: бадэ (badɛ)
• → Bulgarian: баде́м (badém)
• → Crimean Tatar: badem
• → Macedonian: бадем (badem)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бадем, ба̀јам, бајем (regional)

  Latin script: badem, bàjam, bajem (regional)

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Pashto

Noun

بادام • (bādā́m) m

1. almond

References

• “بادام”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.
• Pashtoon, Zeeya A. (2009) “بادام”, in Pashto–English Dictionary, Hyattsville: Dunwoody Press

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Persian

Alternative forms

• بادوم (bâdum) (Tehrani)
• بادم (bâdom) (Shiraz)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wʾtʾm /⁠wādām⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *vātādám. Cognate with Northern Kurdish bahîv and Zazaki vame.

Pronunciation

Dari	بادام
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бодом

Readings
Classical reading?	b
Dari reading?	b
Iranian reading?	b
Tajik reading?	b

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

بادام • (bâdâm) (plural بادام‌ها (bâdâm-hâ))

1. almond

   Synonym: لوز (lowz, luz)

Descendants

• → Armenian: բադամ (badam)
• → Azerbaijani: badam
• → Bengali: বাদাম (badam)
• → Burmese: ဗာဒံ (badam)
• → Chagatai:
  • Uyghur: بادام (badam)
  • Uzbek: bodom
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 巴旦 (bādàn)

  • Dungan: бадан (badan)
  • → Cantonese: 巴旦 (baa¹ daan³)

• → Central Kurdish: بادەم (badem)
• → Hindustani: bādām

  Hindi: बादाम

  Urdu: بادام

• → Gujarati: બદામ (badām)
• → Kashmiri: بادام (bādām), بادَم (bādam)
• → Kazakh: бадам (badam)
• → Kyrgyz: бадам (badam)
• → Malay: badam
  • Indonesian: badam
• → Ottoman Turkish: بادام (badam), بادم (badem), بایام (bayam)
  • Turkish: badem
  • → Albanian: bajame
  • → Adyghe: бадэ (badɛ)
  • → Bulgarian: баде́м (badém)
  • → Crimean Tatar: badem
  • → Macedonian: бадем (badem)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: бадем, ба̀јам, бајем (regional)

    Latin script: badem, bàjam, bajem (regional)

• → Punjabi: ਬਦਾਮ (badām)
• → Rohingya: badam
• → Sanskrit: वाताद (vātāda), वाताम (vātāma)
  • → Hindi: वाताद (vātād)
• → Tatar: бәдәм (bädäm)
• → Tibetan: བ་དམ (ba dam), འབའ་དམ ('ba' dam)
• → Turkmen: badam

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wādām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “vātāma”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, Band III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 465

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian بادام (bâdâm), from Middle Persian wʾtʾm (wādām).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑː.d̪ɑːm/

Noun

بادام • (bādām) m (Hindi spelling बादाम)

1. almond

Derived terms

• بادامی (bādāmī)