توتون

See also: تؤتون and تؤبون

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”).

Noun

توتون (tütün)

1. smoke

Descendants

• Uzbek: tutun
• Uyghur: تۈتۈن (tütün)

References

• M. Pavet de Courteille (1870) “ت”, in Dictionnaire Turk-Oriental, Paris: L'Imprimerie Impériale, page 250.

Ottoman Turkish

توتون باشی (tutun başı)

Alternative forms

• توتن (tutun, tütün)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tütün (“smoke”), from the verb *tüt(e)- (“to smoke”), whence also Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, “to give out smoke”).

Noun

توتون • (tutun, tütün)

1. tobacco (for the pipe, as opposed to tobacco for the narghile تنباكو (tenbakü, tumbaki, tumbeki, tömbeki, tönbeki))
2. smoke

Synonyms

• (tobacco, smoke): دخان (duhan)
• (smoke): دومان (duman)

Derived terms

• توتونلمك (tütünlemek, “to smoke food”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tütün
• Gagauz: tütün
• → Adyghe: тутын (tutən)
• → Armenian: թութուն (tʻutʻun)
• → Bulgarian: тютюн (tjutjun)
• → Central Kurdish: توتن (tutin)
• → Classical Syriac: ܬܬܘܢ
• → Georgian: თუთუნი (tutuni)
• → Iraqi Arabic: تتن
• → Kabardian: тутын (tutən)
• → Laz: თუთუნი (tutuni), ტუტუნი (ťuťuni)
• → Macedonian: тутун (tutun)
• → Mingrelian: თუთუმი (tutumi)
• → Persian: توتون
• → Polish: tytoń
• → Romanian: tutun
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ту̀тӯн

    Latin script: tùtūn

• → Ukrainian: тютюн (tjutjun)

Persian

Alternative forms

• تتن (toton), توتن (toton)

Etymology

From Turkic. See Ottoman Turkish توتون (tütün) above.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tuː.tuːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰu.t̪ʰun]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰuː.t̪ʰuːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰu.t̪ʰun]

Readings
Classical reading?	tūtūn
Dari reading?	tūtūn
Iranian reading?	tutun
Tajik reading?	tutun

Noun

Dari	توتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тутун

توتون • (tutun)

1. (Iran or uncommon) tobacco

Synonyms

• تنباکو (tanbâko)