طامو

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

  • طامی (tamı), طمو (tamu)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tamu, from Sogdian 𐽂𐼺𐼴 (tmw), the accusative form of 𐽂𐼺 (tm, “hell”).

cognates

Cognate with Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq), Kazakh тамұқ (tamūq), Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq) and Uzbek tamugʻ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑmu/

Noun

طَامُو • (ṭamu) (definite accusaative طامویی (ṭamuyı), plural طامولر (ṭamular))

  1. hell, inferno; a place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.
    Synonym: جهنّم (cehennem)
    Antonyms: اوچمق (uçmaq), جنّت (cennet)
    • 1330, Âşık Paşa, Garib-nâme, line 382:
      هَرْ كِه بُنْدَه اِیكِی‌لِكْلَه دِیرِلَه
      یَارِنْ اَنْدَه طَامُو دَاپَه سُورِلَه
      her ki bunda ikilikle dirile
      yarın anda tamu dapa sürile
      he who resurrects with hipocrisy here
      tomorrow, may he be banished to the roads of hell there

Derived terms

  • طامو اودی (tamu odı, “hellfire”)
  • طامولق (tamulıq, “for hell; someone who is headed towards hell”)

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: طامو (tamu)
    • Turkish: tamu

Further reading

  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “tamu”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 629
  • “tamu”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طامو (tamu), from Proto-Turkic *tamu (“hell”), itself from Sogdian 𐽂𐼺𐼴 (tmw), the accusative form of 𐽂𐼺 (tm, “hell”).

cognates

Cognate with Bashkir тамуҡ (tamuq), Kazakh тамұқ (tamūq), Tatar тәмуг (tämuğ), Uyghur تامۇق (tamuq) and Uzbek tamugʻ.

Noun

طامو • (tamu)

  1. (religion, obsolete) hell, a place of torment where sinners are believed to go after death.
    Synonyms: جهنم (cehennem), دوزخ (duzah)
    Antonym: جنّت (cennet)

Descendants

Further reading

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  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tamu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4575
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طامو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 310b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طامو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 796
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Infernus”, 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[4], Vienna, column 795
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طامو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[5], Vienna, column 3078
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tamu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طامو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1228
  • XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[7] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
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