طولاب
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- دولاب (dolab)
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dulâb, “water-wheel”).
Noun edit
طولاب • (dolab)
- thing which turns round, such as a water wheel or a treadmill
- tradesman's or merchant's business, vortex of affairs
- giddiness, vertigo, a sensation of loss of balance
- drum belly, hoove, tympanites, a disease in cattle
Derived terms edit
- ایپك طولابی (ipek dolabı, “silk-winder”)
- صو طولابی (su dolabı, “water wheel”)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dolâb, “cupboard; closet”).
Noun edit
طولاب • (dolab)
- cupboard, sideboard, board used to openly hold dishware
- turnstile, a rotating cupboard which divides the harem from the selamlik
- (figuratively) trick, intrigue, fraud, machination
Derived terms edit
- طولابجی (dolabcı, “maker of cupboards or turnstiles”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: dolap
- → Albanian: dollap
- → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
- → Greek: ντουλάπι (ntoulápi)
- → Ladino: dolap
- → Macedonian: до́лап (dólap)
- → Romanian: dulap
- → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1266
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 821
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Armarium”, 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[2], Vienna, column 84
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3151
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dolap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1260