طولون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • طولك (tuluñ)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tuluŋ (“temple; braid or plait of hair”);[1] cognate with Bashkir толом (tolom), Kazakh тұлым (tūlym), Khakas тулунъ (tulunʺ), Kyrgyz тулум (tulum), Shor тулуң (tuluñ) and Southern Altai тулуҥ (tuluŋ).

Noun

طولون • (tulun) (definite accusative طولونی (tulunu), plural طولونلر (tulunlar))

  1. temple, the slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, and forward of the ear
    Synonyms: شقاق (şakak), صدغ (sadg)

Descendants

  • Turkish: dulun, dulung, tulun

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tuluŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 501

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.