jam (Red.)

post station

Proto-Turkic: *jam
Altaic etymology: Altaic etymology
Proto-Altaic: *ńi̯àmi
Russian meaning: почтовая станция
Turkic: *jam
Mongolian: *ǯim
Tungus-Manchu: *ńiam-
Comments: VEWT 183, EDT 933. Turk. > MMong. ǯam 'post station', WMong. ǯam 'way, street, road' (hardly vice versa; see the discussion in Щербак 1997, 195). Mong. > Man. ǵamun, Nan. jamõ, Ul. jamụ(n), see Doerfer MT 142 (with a strange initial reflex, suggesting rather an unattested Mong. variant *jam; Chinese origin suggested by Doerfer TMN 4, 110-118 is improbable - for purely phonetical reasons
Old Turkic: jam (late OUygh.)
Turkish: jam (Red.)
Tatar: jam (possibly from Russian)
Middle Turkic: jam (Abush., Sangl.)