طولومبه

Ottoman Turkish

طولومبه

Alternative forms

• طولمبه (tulumba), طلومبه (tulumba), طلمبه (tulumba), تلومبه (tulumba), تلومبا (tulumba), طلومبا (tulumba), طولومبا (tulumba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tromba (“trumpet”).

Noun

طولومبه • (tulumba) (plural طولومبه‌لر (tulumbalar))

1. tromp, pump, sucker pipe, any device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas

   Synonym: پومپا (pompa)

2. enema, clyster-pipe, a device for administering an injection of fluid into the rectum
3. whirlwind, tornado, a violent windstorm characterized by the formation of a vortex of air

   Synonyms: بوراغان (burağan), زوبعه (zevbaʿa), قاصرغه (kasırga)

4. tulumba, a kind of sweet fried pastry in finger form typical of Turkey

Derived terms

• طولومبه باقراجی (tulumba bakracı, “sucker of a pump”)
• طولومبه قولی (tulumba kolu, “pump-handle”)
• طولومبه چكمك (tulumba çekmek, “to pump”)
• طولومبه‌جی (tulumbacı, “maker of pumps”)
• چالپاره‌لو طولومبه (çalparalı tulumba, “chain-pump”)
• یانغین طولومبه‌سی (yangın tulumbası, “fire engine”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tulumba
• → Albanian: tullumbë
• → Arabic: طُلُمْبَة (ṭulumba)
• → Armenian: թուլումպա (tʻulumpa)
• → Azerbaijani: tulumba (archaic)
• → Georgian: თულუმბა (tulumba) — Chveneburi
• → Persian: تلمبه (tolomba)
• → Romanian: tulumbă

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulumba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4906
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طولمبه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 319a
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 677–678 Nr. 676
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولومبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hydraula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 715
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Machina”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 989
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تلومبه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 1375
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tulumba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولومبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262