Etymology

shashmaqam

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Today it means: A Central Asian musical genre popular in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Full definition →

Classical Persian شَشْمَقَامْ (šaš-maqām) ← Arabic مَقَام (maqām)
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The story

  1. Classical Persianشش (šaš /šeš)
  2. Arabicقَامَ (qāma)
  3. Arabicمَقَام (maqām)
  4. Classical Persianمقام (maqām /maġâm)
  5. Classical Persianشَشْمَقَامْ (šaš-maqām)
  6. English todayshashmaqam

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَشْمَقَامْ (šaš-maqām).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.