دوكمه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tügme (button), a development of *tüg- (to tie in a knot; make a loop); cognate with Azerbaijani düymə, Bashkir төймә (töymə), Kazakh түйме (tüime), Kyrgyz түймө (tüymö), Uyghur تۈگمە (tügme), Uzbek tugma and Yakut тимэх (timeq).

Noun

دوگمه • (dögme, dügme, döğme, düğme)

  1. button, a knob or disc that is passed through a loop or buttonhole, which is used as a fastener
    Synonym: زر (zırr)
  2. button, a piece of wood or metal, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten a door, etc.
Derived terms
  • دوگمه‌لتمك (düğmeletmek, to make or let be buttoned up)
  • دوگمه‌لمك (düğmelemek, to button up)
  • دوگمه‌لنمك (düğmelenmek, to become buttoned up)
  • دوگمه‌لو (düğmeli, furnished with buttons)
Descendants
  • Turkish: düğme
  • Albanian: dugme
  • Bulgarian: дюкме (djukme), дюгме (djugme) (obsolete)
  • Central Kurdish: دوگمە (dugme)
  • Macedonian: дугме (dugme)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ду̀гме
    Latin script: dùgme

Further reading

Etymology 2

From the root of دوكمك (dökmek, to pour) +‎ ـمه (-ma, -me).

Adjective

دوكمه • (dökme)

  1. cast, poured, molded

Noun

دوكمه • (dökme)

  1. something cast, e. g. cast iron
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: dökme
  • Armenian: տէօքմէ (tēōkʻmē)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dökme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1283
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوكمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[6] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fusus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[7], Vienna, column 636
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوكمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[8], Vienna, column 2182
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “دوكمه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 441