دكرمن
Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegirmen (“mill”),[1] a development from *tegir- (“round, circle; to turn, to spin”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəyirman, Bashkir тирмән (tirmən), Crimean Tatar degirmen, Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Kyrgyz тегирмен (tegirmen), Turkmen degirmen, Uyghur تۈگمەن (tügmen) and Uzbek tegirmon.
Noun
[edit]دكرمن • (değirmen) (definite accusative دكرمنی (değirmeni), plural دكرمنلر (değirmenler))
- mill, a grinding apparatus or appliance for substances such as grains and seeds
- mill, a building housing such an apparatus powered by animals, wind, or water
Derived terms
[edit]- ال دكرمنی (el değirmeni, “hand-mill”)
- اون دكرمنی (un değirmeni, “gristmill, flourmill”)
- بیكیر دكرمنی (beygir değirmeni, “mill operated by pack horses”)
- حیوان دكرمنی (hayvan değirmeni, “mill operated by pack animals”)
- خروس دكرمنی (horos değirmeni, “rotating, circular ventilator”)
- دكرمن حقی (değirmen hakkı, “due payable for the use of a mill”)
- دكرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı, “millstone”)
- دكرمنجی (değirmenci, “miller”)
- دكرمنلك (değirmenlik, “place of mills”)
- صو دكرمنی (su değirmeni, “watermill”)
- یاغ دكرمنی (yağ değirmeni, “oil mill”)
- یل دكرمنی (yel değirmeni, “windmill”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tegirme:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 486
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دكرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 745
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “değirmen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1130
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دكرمن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 226a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mola”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1067
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دكرمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2106
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “değirmen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دكرمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908