دومن

Ottoman Turkish

دومن

Etymology

From Venetian timón (“helm, rudder”), from Latin tēmō (“bar, pole”).

Noun

دومن • (dümen)

rudder, an underwater vane used to steer a vessel

Derived terms

دومن صویی‎ (dümen suyu, “wake”)
دومن طولابی‎ (dümen dolabı, “rudder-wheel”)
دومن قوللانمق‎ (dümen kullanmak, “to steer”)
دومن نفری‎ (dümen neferi, “the last man in a file”)
دومنجی‎ (dümenci, “helmsman”)
دومنی چویرمك‎ (dümeni çevirmek, “to change direction”)

Descendants

Turkish: dümen, domen, dömen, demen
→ Albanian: dymen
→ Arabic: دُومَان‎ (dūmān)
→ Armenian: (Constantinople) տիւմէն (tiwmēn), (Van) դուման (duman)
→ Bulgarian: дюме́н (djumén)
→ Dalmatian: dùmen
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ду̀мен
- Latin: dùmen
→ Ukrainian: деме́н (demén), деме́но (deméno)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dümen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1324
Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 432—436
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دومن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 592
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gubernaculum”, 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, Vienna, column 675
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دومن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2190
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دومن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 928

Persian

Adverb

دومن • (duman)

(dialectal, Kazerun, Tang-e Eram) downward, downwards

Preposition

دومن • (duman)

(dialectal, Kazerun, Tang-e Eram) at the bottom of

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