دوگوم

Ottoman Turkish

دوگوم

Alternative forms

• دوگم (düğüm)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tügün (“knot”), from *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”); cognate with Azerbaijani düyün, Bashkir төйөн (töyön), Kazakh түйін (tüiın), Kyrgyz түйүн (tüyün), Tatar төен (töen), Turkmen düwün, Uyghur تۈگۈن (tügün) and Uzbek tugun.

Noun

دوگوم • (düğüm)

1. knot, a looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material

   Synonyms: بند (bend), عقده (ʿukde), گره (girih)

2. bow, a type of knot with two loops frequently used in decorations

Derived terms

• دوگوم آچمق (düğüm açmak, “to untie a knot”)
• دوگوملتمك (düğümletmek, “to make or let be knotted”)
• دوگوملمك (düğümlemek, “to knot, tie into a knot”)
• دوگوملنمك (düğümlenmek, “to become knotted”)
• دوگوملو (düğümlü, “knotted, tied in knots”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: düğüm
• → Armenian: տիւյիւմ (tiwyiwm)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğüm”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1321
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دوگوم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 235b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوگوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nodus”, 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 1144
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوكم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2181
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “düğüm”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوگوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925