طام

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دام (dam)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tām (“roof”); cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tam), Azerbaijani dam, Uyghur تام (tam), Uzbek tom, Kazakh: там (tam), Kyrgyz там (tam).

Noun

طام • (dam)

1. (architecture) roof, the external covering at the top of a building

   Synonym: چاتی (çatı)

2. (in parts of Asia Minor) house, a structure build as an abode of human beings
3. outbuilding, outhouse, roofed shed

Derived terms

• طاملامق (damlamak, “to roof a house”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dam

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1089
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tectum”, 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 1652
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 3077–3078
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227