طبان

Ottoman Turkish

طبان

Alternative forms

• طابان (taban), تبان (taban), تابان (taban)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tāpan (“foot, sole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈban/

Noun

طبان • (taban)

1. sole of the foot
2. sole of a shoe
3. fundament, basis
4. crossbeam, wallplate
5. roller in agriculture
6. firmness, determination, courage, intentness
7. level as an instrument for evening in construction work
8. Indian or Damascus steel of a special kind
9. (attributive) flat, level

Derived terms

• دوه طبانی (deve tabanı, “sunflower”)
• طبانجه (tabanca, “palm, slap, pistol”)
• طبانسز (tabansız, “soleless”)
• طبانلامق (tabanlamak, “to tread, press or kick”)
• طبانلانمق (tabanlanmak, “to be rolled or harrowed”)
• طبانلو (tabanlı, “soled”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: taban
• → Armenian: տապան (tapan), դաբան (daban)
• → Bulgarian: таба́н (tabán)
• → Macedonian: табан (taban)
• → Romanian: tabán
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: та̀бан

  Latin script: tàban

• → Laz: ტაბანი (ťabani)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طبان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3083
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “taban”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طبان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1231
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “طبان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 594