كومه
See also: كومة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic كَوْمَة (kawma, “pile, stack, heap”).
Noun
كومه • (küme) (definite accusative كومهیی (kümeyi), plural كومهلر (kümeler))
- heap, pile, stack, congeries, a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation
- mound, hillock, butte, knoll, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially, a regular and isolated hill
- Synonyms: اوبك (öbek), اویوك (öyük)
- group, crowd, swarm, throng, a multitude of people congregated or collected into a close body without order
- Synonym: قالابالق (kalabalık)
- 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, translated by M. Brett Wilson, Nur Baba[1], page 20:
- استانبولك یدی تپهسندن برنده، اسکی بر بكتاشی دركاهنده قادین، اركك مست بر كومه محب، صباحه قارشی هپ بر آغزدن بریله قونوشیورلردی.
- İstanbul'un yedi tepesinden birinde, eski bir Bektaşi dergahında kadın, erkek mest bir küme muhib, sabaha karşı hep bir ağızdan böyle konuşuyorlardı.
- On one of Istanbul's seven hills, in an old Bektashi lodge, a group of intoxicated disciples, men and women, greeted the dawn all talking together.
Derived terms
- كوكرجین كومهسی (güvercin kümesi, “dovecote”)
- كومه كومه (küme küme, “in heaps, in piles”)
Descendants
- Turkish: küme
- → Armenian: քիւմէ (kʻiwmē)
Further reading
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- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “küme”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 696
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كومه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 679
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “küme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2893
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “küme”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1603