كومور

Ottoman Turkish

كومور

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kömür (“coal”); cognate with Azerbaijani kömür, Bashkir күмер (kümer), Chuvash кӑмрӑк (kămrăk), Kazakh көмір (kömır), Kyrgyz көмүр (kömür), Turkmen kömür, Uyghur كۆمۈر (kömür) and Uzbek koʻmir.

Noun

كومور • (kömür)

1. charcoal, a substance obtained by destructive distillation of wood

   Synonyms: زغال (zuğal), فحم (fahm)

2. coal, a usually black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains
3. coke, the solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven

Derived terms

• آغاج كوموری (ağac kömürü, “charcoal”)
• طاش كوموری (taş kömürü, “stone coal”)
• كومورجی (kömürcü, “charcoal burner or dealer”)
• كومورلك (kömürlük, “coal warehouse”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: kömür
• Turkish: kömür
• → Albanian: qymyr
• → Armenian: քյոմուր (kʻyomur)
• → Bulgarian: кюмю́р (kjumjúr)
• → Macedonian: ќумур (ḱumur)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ćùmur / ћу̀мур

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kömür”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2783
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carbo”, 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 152
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4093
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kömür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604