toman

See also: Toman and tõmãn

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian (tōman), from Mongolian түмэн (tümen).

Alternative forms

tumen, tomaun, tomin, touman

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʊmən/, /toʊˈmɑːn/, /ˈtʌmən/
Rhymes: -ʊmən

Noun

toman (plural tomans)

(historical, military) A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
(historical, numismatics) A Persian money of account or gold coin issued until 1927, notionally worth 10,000 dinars.
- 1845, Robert Browning, The Flight of the Duchess:
  The band-roll strung with tomans
  Which proves the veil a Persian woman's
(informal, numismatics) An Iranian coin or value of 10 rials.

Synonyms

(unit): myriarchy

Hyponyms

(historical coin): dinar (¹⁄_10,000 toman), kran (¹⁄₁₀ toman)
(modern coin): rial (¹⁄₁₀ toman)

Translations

a division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army

Mongolian:
Cyrillic: түмэн (tümen)

Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠨ (tümen)

currency in Iran

Arabic: تُومَان m (tūmān)
Armenian: թուման (hy) (tʻuman)
Azerbaijani: tümən
Greek: τομάν (tomán)
Hindi: तोमान (tomān)
Japanese: トマン (toman)
Korean: 토만 (toman)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tîmen (ku), tûmen (ku)
Pashto: تومان (ps) m (tūmãn)
Persian: تومان (fa) (tumân)
Russian: тума́н (ru) m (tumán), тома́н (ru) m (tomán)
Tajik: тумон (tumon)
Turkish: tümen (tr), tomen

Etymology 2

From Irish toman (“small hill, hillock”), diminutive of tom (“hill”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊmən/

Noun

toman (plural tomans)

(geography) Synonym of hillock.

References

"toman, n.¹" and "n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

NOTAM, manto, notam

Asturian

Verb

toman

third-person plural present subjunctive of tomar

Galician

Verb

toman

third-person plural present indicative of tomar

Romanian

Adverb

toman

Obsolete form of taman.

References

toman in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Verb

toman

third-person plural present indicative of tomar