غومنه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• غومانا (gomana), غومانه (gomana), قمانه (komana), قومانا (komana), قومانه (komana), قومنه (komena, komana)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gomena (“hawser”), itself from Arabic جُمَان (jumān, “tassel, puff”). Doublet of جمان (cuman, “silver beads”).

Noun

غومنه • (gomena or gumena) (definite accusative غومنه‌یی (gomenayı), plural غومنه‌لر (gomenalar))

1. (nautical) cable, a strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship

Descendants

• Turkish: gomena

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gomena”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1730
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 332, page 252
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غومنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 878
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 77
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غومنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1355