كدمان

Ottoman Turkish

گدمان

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kētmen (“hoe, mattock”); cognate with Azerbaijani kətmən, Bashkir кәтмән (kətmən), Chuvash катмак (katmak), Kazakh кетпен (ketpen), Kyrgyz кетмен (ketmen), Turkmen kätmen, Uyghur كەتمەن (ketmen) and Uzbek ketmon.

Noun

گدمان • (gedman or gedmen) (definite accusative گدمانی (gedmeni), plural گدمانلر (gedmenler))

1. mattock, an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body

   Synonym: معول (miʼvel)

Related terms

• گدمك (gedmek, “to notch”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gedmen

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كدمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531