كدمان
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *kētmen (“hoe, mattock”); cognate with Azerbaijani kətmən, Bashkir кәтмән (kətmən), Chuvash катмак (katmak), Kazakh кетпен (ketpen), Kyrgyz кетмен (ketmen), Turkmen kätmen, Uyghur كەتمەن (ketmen) and Uzbek ketmon.
Noun
editكدمان • (gedman or gedmen) (definite accusative كدمانی (gedmeni), plural كدمانلر (gedmenler))
- mattock, an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body
- Synonym: معول (miʼvel)
Related terms
edit- كدمك (gedmek, “to notch”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: gedmen
Further reading
edit- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كدمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531