تلوه

Uncertain, but perhaps from Persian دلو‎ (dalv, “pail, bucket”), from Arabic دَلْو‎ (dalw).

تلوه • (telve)

1. sediment, dregs, grounds
2. coffee grounds, sediments of coffee
3. bore, a tiresome and persistent man
4. sot, a man who stupefies himself with opium

• Turkish: telve
• → Arabic: تَنْوَة‎ (tanwa)
• → Armenian: թելֆե (tʿelfe), ⇒ Թելֆեյան (Tʿelfeyan)
• → Cypriot Greek: ττερβές (ttervés)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “telve2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4715
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تلوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 400
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “telvé”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 140, compares to Greek τέφρα (téfra) and derives from Arabic تُفْل‎ (tufl, “dregs, lees, sediment, settlings; residue”) or Arabic تَنْوَة‎ (tanwa)
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “تلوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1375–1376
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “telve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تلوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 590