طوماغی

Ottoman Turkish

طوماغی

Alternative forms

• دوماغی (dumağı)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tumagu (“common cold”); cognate with Azerbaijani tumov, Bashkir тымау (tımaw), Kazakh тұмау (tūmau), Kyrgyz тумоо (tumoo), Tatar томау (tomaw), Uyghur تۇمۇ (tumu), Uzbek tumáv and Yakut тумуу (tumuu).

Noun

طوماغی • (tumağı)

1. cold, a common viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever

   Synonyms: زكام (zükâm), صوغوق (soğuk), نزله (nezle)

Descendants

• Turkish: dumağı
• → Armenian: դումաղա (dumaġa) — Svedia

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dumağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1303
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rheuma”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1484
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوماغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262