тютюнъ

Old Ruthenian

тютю́нъ

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish توتون‎ (tütün), reinforced by Crimean Tatar tütün, from Proto-Turkic *tütün, from *tüt(e)-. Doublet of тыту́нъ. First attested in the late 1600s.

Noun

тютю́нъ • (transliteration needed) m inan (genitive тютюну́, related adjective тютю́нний)

(uncountable) tobacco (plant and its leaves used for smoking)
Synonyms: таба́къ, (dialectal) тыту́нъ

Derived terms

тютю́нница
тютю́нникъ

Descendants

Belarusian: цюцю́н (cjucjún), тютю́н (tjutjún) (dialectal)
Ukrainian: тютю́н (tjutjún); тюті́н (tjutín) (dialectal)

Further reading

Bulyka, A. M., editor (2014), “тютюнъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 34 (тресолнечный – умопомятенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 101

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