# چمن
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* չէմէն (çemen) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology 1

From Persian چمن (čaman).

#### Noun

چمن • (çemen)
* green field, meadow
* turf; grassplot

#### Further reading

* Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “چمن”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 287a
* Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 62
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
* Stachowski, Marek (2019) “çemen II”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 110b

### Etymology 2

From Armenian չաման (čʻaman).

#### Noun

چمن • (çemen)
* caraway, Carum carvi (plant, seed and paste made from seeds used to coat meat)
* fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum (plant, leaves, seed and paste from it)
    Synonyms: بوی اوتی (boy otu), بوی تخمی (boy tohumu), بوی چیچگی (boy çiçeği), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: çemen
* → Armenian: չա̈մա̈ն (čʻämän), չեմեն (čʻemen)

#### References

* ↑ Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “çemen”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı, page 223b
* ↑ Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “çemen”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 213
* ↑ Çınar, Ümüt, Kurt, Teslime (2019) “çemen”, in Mâcirce: a sub-dialect of the Meskhetian Turkish‎, pages 50–51
* ↑ Baytop, Turhan (2007) “frenk kimyonu”, in Türkçe bitki adları sözlüğü [Dictionary of Turkish Plant Names] (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınlan; 578), 3rd edition, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 109
* ↑ Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چمن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 188a

#### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “չաման”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 622–623
* Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “چمن”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 287a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 474b
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1654
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 730
* Stachowski, Marek (2019) “çemen I”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 110b, unaware of the Armenian

## Persian
### Etymology

Related to چمیدن (čamidan, “to stroll, saunter”) and Old Armenian ճեմ (čem, “walk”), an Iranian borrowing. The senses "lawn" and "meadow" perhaps influenced by the Turkic. Compare Turkish çimen.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃa.ˈman]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.mǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.mǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.mǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.mǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰæ.mǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰä.mǽn]

### Noun

چمن • (čaman)
* (archaic) path, allee
* lawn
* meadow

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: çəmən
* → Gujarati: ચમન (caman)
* → Malay: taman
** Indonesian: taman
* → Old Javanese: tāman
** Javanese: ꦠꦩꦤ꧀ (taman)
* → Ottoman Turkish: چمن (çemen)

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian چمن (čaman).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t͡ʃə.mən/
* Rhymes: -ən
* Hyphenation: چ‧من

### Noun

چَمَن • (caman) m (Hindi spelling चमन)
* garden
* flourishing place, parterre, verdant

### Proper noun

چَمَن • (caman) m (Hindi spelling चमन)
* Chaman (a city in Qilla Abdullah district, Balochistan, Pakistan)