طولون

Ottoman Turkish

طولون

Alternative forms

• طولك (tuluñ)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tuluŋ (“temple; braid or plait of hair”); cognate with Bashkir толом (tolom), Kazakh тұлым (tūlym), Khakas тулунъ (tulunʺ), Kyrgyz тулум (tulum), Shor тулуң (tuluñ) and Southern Altai тулуҥ (tuluŋ).

Noun

طولون • (tulun) (definite accusative طولونی (tulunu), plural طولونلر (tulunlar))

1. temple, the slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, and forward of the ear

   Synonyms: شقاق (şakak), صدغ (sadg)

Descendants

• Turkish: tulun

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طولون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 328
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulun2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4907
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طولك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 319a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tempora”, 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 1656
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3152
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262