توتون
Chagatai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”).
Descendants
- Uzbek: tutun
- Uyghur: تۈتۈن (tütün)
References
- M. Pavet de Courteille (1870), “ت”, in Dictionnaire Turk-Oriental, Paris: L'Imprimerie Impériale, page 250.
Ottoman Turkish

توتون باشی (tutun başı)
Alternative forms
- توتن (tutun, tütün)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tütün (“smoke”), from the verb *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”)[1], whence also Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, “to give out smoke”).
Noun
توتون • (tutun, tütün)
Descendants
- Turkish: tütün
- Gagauz: tütün
- → Adyghe: тутын (tutən)
- → Armenian: թութուն (tʿutʿun)
- → Bulgarian: тютюн (tjutjun)
- → Classical Syriac: ܬܬܘܢ
- → Central Kurdish: توتن (tutin)
- → Iraqi Arabic: تتن
- → Georgian: თუთუნი (tutuni)
- → Mingrelian: თუთუმი (tutumi)
- → Kabardian: тутын (tutən)
- → Persian: توتون
- → Ukrainian: тютюн (tjutjun)
- → Macedonian: тутун (tutun)
- → Polish: tytoń
- → Romanian: tutun
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*tüt-ün, *tüt-süg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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