ریسمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (rismân, “cord, string”).

Noun

ریسمان • (risman)

string, cord, rope, line, thick strands of other cordage that are twisted together
Synonyms: ایپ (ip), حبل (habl), خلاط (halat), رسن (resen), طنب (tunb, tunub)

Descendants

Turkish: risman

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “risman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3971
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “rismân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1073
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ریسمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 635
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Funis”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 632
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ریسمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2712
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ریسمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 998

Persian

Alternative forms

رسمان (rismān / resmân)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ɾeːs.ˈmaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [reːs.mɑ́ːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [reːs.mɑ́ːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [reːs.mɔ́ːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹiːs.mɒ́ːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾes.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading^?	rēsmān
Dari reading^?	rēsmān
Iranian reading^?	rismân
Tajik reading^?	resmon

Noun


Iranian Persian	ریسمان
Dari	ریسمان
Tajik	ресмон

ریسمان • (rēsmān / rismân)

rope
Synonym: طناب (tanāb / tanâb)
thread, string
cable, cord

Derived terms

ریسمانی (rēsmānī / rismâni)
ریسمان‌باز (rēsmān-bāz / rismân-bâz)
ریسمان‌بازی (rēsmān-bāzī / rismân-bâzi)
ریسمان‌باف (rēsmān-bāf / rismân-bâf)

Further reading

Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “ریسمان”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 199
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ریسمان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ريسمان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
“ریسمان”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2025