düven
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دوگن (döğen, düğen, döven, düven), itself from a variant of Ancient Greek τυκάνη (tukánē, “threshing instrument”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: dü‧ven
Noun
[edit]düven (definite accusative düveni, plural düvenler)
- threshing sledge, a rectangular wooden plank designed to separate grain from chaff
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düven1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1339
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “düven”, in Nişanyan Sözlük