dulun
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طولون (tulun, “temple”), from Proto-Turkic *tuluŋ (“temple; braid or plait of hair”). Cognate with Bashkir толом (tolom), Kazakh тұлым (tūlym), Khakas тулунъ (tulunʺ), Kyrgyz тулум (tulum), Shor тулуң (tuluñ) and Southern Altai тулуҥ (tuluŋ).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: du‧lun
Noun
[edit]dulun (definite accusative dulunu, plural dulunlar)
- temple, the slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, and forward of the ear
- Synonym: şakak
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dulun1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1302