wampum

English - Turkish

Definition of wampum in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) kızılderililerin para olarak kullandığı boncuklar

Amerika kızılderililerinin para veya sus olarak kullandıkları boncuklar

{i} kızılderililerin para olarak kullandığı boncuklar

para

boncuk

mangır

English - English

Definition of wampum in English English dictionary

Small beads made from polished shells, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples

Money

beads strung on threads, formerly used among the american indians as currency

{n} current money amongst Indians

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc

small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

shells put into strings, belts etc, used in the past as money by Native Americans (wampumpeag , from Narragansett, from wampan + api + -ag (plural suffix)). Tubular shell beads assembled into strings or woven into belts or embroidered ornaments. The Algonquian word (short for wampumpeag) translates as "string of white (shell beads)." Before contact with white settlers, Indians used wampum primarily ceremonially or in gift exchanges. In the early 17th century it came to be used as money in trade with whites, because of a shortage of European currency

as an ornament

informal terms for money

{i} small beads made from shells by American Indians; money (Slang)

wampumpeag

Hyphenation

wam·pum

Turkish pronunciation

wämpım

Pronunciation

/ˈwämpəm/ /ˈwɑːmpəm/

Etymology

[ 'wäm-p&m ] (noun.) 1636. Abbreviated from wampumpeag; falsely analysed as ‘wampum’ + ‘peag’; from ‘wamp’ ("white") + ‘umpe’ ("string") + ‘ag’ (plural suffix), in reference to the string of white shell-beads and not the individual beads.