توتون
Chagatai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”).
Noun
توتون (tütün)
Descendants
References
- M. Pavet de Courteille (1870) “ت”, in Dictionnaire Turk-Oriental, Paris: L'Imprimerie Impériale, page 250.
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- توتن (tutun, tütün)
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)
- tobacco (for the pipe, as opposed to tobacco for the narghile تنباكو (tenbakü, tumbaki, tumbeki, tömbeki, tönbeki))
- smoke
Synonyms
Derived terms
- توتونلمك (tütünlemek, “to smoke food”)
Descendants
- Turkish: tütün
- Gagauz: tütün
- → Adyghe: тутын (tutən)
- → Armenian: թութուն (tʻutʻun)
- → Bulgarian: тютюн (tjutjun)
- → Central Kurdish: توتن (tutin)
- → Classical Syriac: ܬܬܘܢ
- → Georgian: თუთუნი (tutuni)
- → Iraqi Arabic: تتن
- → Kabardian: тутын (tutən)
- → Laz: თუთუნი (tutuni), ტუტუნი (ťuťuni)
- → Lishana Deni: תותון (tutun)
- → Macedonian: тутун (tutun)
- → Mingrelian: თუთუმი (tutumi)
- → Persian: توتون
- → Polish: tytoń
- → Romanian: tutun
- → Ukrainian: тютюн (tjutjun)
References
- ^ 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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /tuː.ˈtuːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t̪ʰu.t̪ʰun]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | tūtūn |
| Dari reading? | tūtūn |
| Iranian reading? | tutun |
| Tajik reading? | tutun |
Noun
| Dari | توتون |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | тутун |
توتون • (tutun)