پاموق

Ottoman Turkish

پاموق

Alternative forms

• پانبوق (panbuk), پامبوق (pambuk), پنبوق (panbuk)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (pambuk), itself from Middle Persian pmbk'; doublet of پنبه (pembe, “cotton”).

Noun

پاموق • (pamuk)

1. cotton, the vegetal fibers produced by plants of the genus Gossypium

   Synonyms: پنبه (pembe), قطن (kutn)

2. cotton wool, the raw fibers of cotton before being processed

   Synonym: كرسف (kırsef)

3. batting, wadding, soft and fibrous cotton used as stuffing material

Derived terms

• پاموق آتمق (pamuk atmak, “to card cotton”)
• پاموق آغاجی (pamuk ağacı, “cotton”)
• پاموق اوتی (pamuk otu, “white horehound”)
• پاموق ایپلكی (pamuk ipliği, “cotton yarn”)
• پاموق بالغی (pamuk balığı, “blue shark”)
• پاموق بالی (pamuk balı, “cotton honey”)
• پاموقجی (pamukcu, “cotton wool trader”)
• پاموقلی (pamuklu, “made of cotton wool”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pamuk
• → Albanian: pambuk
• → Armenian: փամպուխ (pʻampux)
• → Bulgarian: паму́к (pamúk)
• → Hungarian: pamut
• → Karaim: памукъ (pamuq)
• → Macedonian: памук (pamuk)
• → Romani:

  Balkan Romani: (Crimean, Sepečides) pambuki, (Kosovo Arli) pamuko

• → Serbo-Croatian: pàmuk／па̀мук
• → Urum: памух (pamuh)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pamuk”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3762
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاموق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 315
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gossipium”, 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 660
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پاموق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 691
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pamuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاموق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 436