دومن

Ottoman Turkish

دومن

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek τιμόνι (timóni), from Venetan timón. The initial /d/ is most likely due to the voicing effect in Greek for the preceding neuter article τον (ton), also compare Laz დიმონი (dimoni).

Noun

دومن • (dümen)

1. (nautical) rudder, an underwater vane used to steer a vessel

Derived terms

• دومن صویی (dümen suyu, “wake”)
• دومن طولابی (dümen dolabı, “rudder-wheel”)
• دومن قوللانمق (dümen kullanmak, “to steer”)
• دومن نفری (dümen neferi, “the last man in a file”)
• دومنجی (dümenci, “helmsman”)
• دومنی چویرمك (dümeni çevirmek, “to change direction”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dümen, domen, dömen, demen (dialectal)
• → Albanian: dymen
• → Arabic: دُومَان (dūmān)
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) տիւմէն (tiwmēn), (Van) դուման (duman)
• → Bulgarian: дюме́н (djumén)
• → Dalmatian: dùmen
• → Moroccan Arabic: دمان (dmān)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: ду̀мен
  • Latin script: dùmen
• → Ukrainian: деме́н (demén), деме́но (deméno)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dümen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1324
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 432–436
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دومن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 592
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gubernaculum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 675
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دومن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2190
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دومن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 928

Persian

Adverb

دومن • (duman)

1. (dialectal, Kazerun, Tang-e Eram) downward, downwards

Preposition

دومن • (duman)

1. (dialectal, Kazerun, Tang-e Eram) at the bottom of