طولاب

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دولاب (dolab)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dulâb, “water-wheel”).

Noun

طولاب • (dolab)

1. thing which turns round, such as a water wheel or a treadmill
2. tradesman's or merchant's business, vortex of affairs
3. giddiness, vertigo, a sensation of loss of balance
4. drum belly, hoove, tympanites, a disease in cattle

Derived terms

• ایپك طولابی (ipek dolabı, “silk-winder”)
• صو طولابی (su dolabı, “water wheel”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dolâb, “cupboard; closet”).

Noun

طولاب • (dolab)

1. cupboard, sideboard, board used to openly hold dishware
2. turnstile, a rotating cupboard which divides the harem from the selamlik
3. (figuratively) trick, intrigue, fraud, machination

   Synonyms: اویون (oyun), كلاه (“külah”)

Derived terms

• طولابجی (dolabcı, “maker of cupboards or turnstiles”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dolap
• → Albanian: dollap
• → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
• → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
• → Ladino: dolap
• → Laz: დოლაბი (dolabi), დოლაპი (dolap̌i) — Atina
• → Macedonian: до́лап (dólap)
• → Romanian: dulap
• → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1266
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 821
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Armarium”, 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 84
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3151
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dolap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1260