ال دكرمنی

Ottoman Turkish

ال دگرمنی

Etymology

From ال (el, “hand”) + دكرمن (değirmen, “mill”).

Noun

ال دكرمنی • (el değirmeni)

1. handmill, quern, a small hand-powered tool for grinding spices, coffee, etc.

   Synonym: یارغوچاق (yarguçak)

Descendants

• Turkish: el değirmeni

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دكرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 746
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “el değirmeni”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1404
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ال دكرمنی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908