توتون

See also: تؤتون and تؤبون

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (to smoke).

Noun

توتون (tütün)

  1. smoke

Descendants

  • Uzbek: tutun
  • Uyghur: تۈتۈن (tütün)

References

  • M. Pavet de Courteille (1870) “ت”, in Dictionnaire Turk-Oriental, Paris: L'Imprimerie Impériale, page 250.

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tütün (smoke), from the verb *tüt(e)- (to smoke),[1] whence also Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, to give out smoke).

Noun

توتون • (tutun, tütün)

  1. tobacco (for the pipe, as opposed to tobacco for the narghile تنباكو (tenbakü, tumbaki, tumbeki, tömbeki, tönbeki))
  2. smoke

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tüt-ün, *tüt-süg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. See Ottoman Turkish توتون (tütün) above.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? tūtūn
Dari reading? tūtūn
Iranian reading? tutun
Tajik reading? tutun

Noun

Dari توتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik тутун

توتون • (tutun)

  1. (Iran or uncommon) tobacco
    Synonym: تنباکو (tanbâko)