Where does “bajam” come from?
bajam (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ottoman Turkish بادام, from Persian بادام, from Pahlavi 𐭥𐭠𐭣𐭠𐭬, from Proto-Indo-Iranian vātādám.
bajam (Serbo-Croatian): almond; almond tree
Ancestry of “bajam”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | بادام | almond |
| 2 | Persian | بادام | almond |
| 3 | Pahlavi | 𐭥𐭠𐭣𐭠𐭬 | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | vātādám | — |