طومان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Also Azerbaijani tuman, related to Persian تنبان (tonbân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuˈmɑn]
• Homophone: تومان (tuman)

Noun

طومان • (tuman)

1. long drawers, baggy trousers

   Synonyms: طون (don), شلوار (şelvar)

Descendants

• Turkish: tuman
• →? Chagatai: تومان (tuman), طومان (tuman)
• →? Northern Kurdish: tûman

Etymology 2

Noun

طومان • (duman)

1. Alternative spelling of دومان (duman, “smoke, fog, fume”)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طومان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 3154
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “طومان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 611c–612a