پوتور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پوطور (potur), پتور (potur), پطور (potur), پوتر (potur), پوطر (potur)

Etymology

From Armenian փոթոր (pʻotʻor, “conical”); the pants were so called because of being wider above than below.

Noun

پوتور • (potur)

1. rustic trousers, culottes, a kind of legwear wide on top and strait below fastened by hook and eye
2. fold, wrinkle
3. (religious slur) new convert to Islam

Descendants

• Turkish: potur
• → Egyptian Arabic: بطر (buṭr)
• → Armenian: փօթուր (pʻōtʻur)
• → Bulgarian: потурна́к (poturnák)
• → Macedonian: потур (potur), потурнак (poturnak), потурјак (poturjak)
• → Romanian: poturi
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: по̀тур

  Latin script: pòtur

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փոթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 510b
• Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler‎^[1], Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 53
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 11
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوتور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 325b
• Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[3] (in German), volume 27, page 130
• Stachowski, Marek (2019) “potur”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 283a
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوتور”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221b