طومان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Northern Kurdish tûman, equivalent to Persian تنبان‎ (tonbân).

Pronunciation

Noun

طومان • (tuman)

  1. long drawers, baggy trousers
    Synonyms: طون‎ (don), شلوار‎ (şelvar)
Descendants
  • Turkish: tuman

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, Vienna, column 3154
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “طومان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 611c–612a
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