طومان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Also Azerbaijani tuman, related to Persian تنبان (tonbân).

Pronunciation

Noun

طومان • (tuman)

  1. long drawers, baggy trousers
    Synonyms: طون (don), شلوار (şelvar)
Descendants
  • Turkish: tuman
  • →? Chagatai: تومان (tuman), طومان (tuman)
  • →? Northern Kurdish: tûman

Etymology 2

Noun

طومان • (duman)

  1. alternative spelling of دومان (duman, “smoke, fog, fume”)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طومان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[1], Vienna, column 3154
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “طومان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 611c–612a
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