مردمك

See also: مردمک

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مرجمك (mercimek)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مردمک (mardumak), a diminutive of مَرْدُم (mardom, “people; human”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛɾdyˈmɛc/, /mɛɾdiˈmɛc/

Noun

مردمك • (merdümek, merdimek)

1. (originally) manikin, titman, homunculus, a little man
2. pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

   Synonyms: حدقه (hadaka), گوز ببكی (göz bebeği)

3. lentil, any of several plants of the genus Lens having edible seeds

   Synonyms: عدس (ʿades), یاصمیق (yasmık)

4. chickling vetch, any plant with edible seeds of the species Lathyrus sativus

   Synonyms: جلبان (cılban), آق بورچاق (ak burçak)

Descendants

• Turkish: merdimek, mercimek, mercemek, mürdümük, mürdük, mercek
• → Armenian: մէրճիմէկ (mērčimēk) — Constantinople
• → Bulgarian: мерджеме́к (merdžemék), мержеме́к (meržemék), мермжеме́к (mermžemék), мерджумек (merdžumek)
• → Georgian: მერჯიმეგ (merǯimeg) — Imerkhevi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mercimek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3148
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merdümek”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 740
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cicercula”, 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 179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مردمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4568
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mercimek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1811