esham

== Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish اسهام (esham), presuming a plural ***أَسْهَام (***ʔashām) of Arabic سَهْم (sahm), while in Arabic one uses, oddly contrary to this, the plural أَسْهُم (ʔashum) for “shares, stocks”, else verbal noun of form IV إِسْهَام (ʔishām, “to give a share in”). === Noun === esham (definite accusative eshamı, plural eshamlar) (finance) share (historical) annuities sold by the Ottoman treasury === References === Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “esham”, in Nişanyan Sözlük Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اسهام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116 Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN