See also: تؤتون and تؤبون

Chagatai

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Etymology

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

Noun

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توتون (tütün)

  1. smoke

Descendants

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  • Uzbek: tutun
  • Uyghur: تۈتۈن (tütün)

References

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

Ottoman Turkish

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توتون باشی (tutun başı)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tütün (smoke), from the verb *tüt(e)- (to smoke),[1] whence also Ottoman Turkish توتمك (tütmek, to give out smoke).

Noun

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توتون (tutun, tütün)

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

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tüt-ün, *tüt-süg”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Turkic. See Ottoman Turkish توتون (tütün) above.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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Dari توتون
Iranian Persian
Tajik тутун

توتون (tutun)

  1. (Iran or uncommon) tobacco
    Synonym: تنباکو (tanbâko)