گدمان
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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 edit
گدمان • (gedman, gedmen)
- mattock, an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body
- Synonym: معول (miʿvel)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: gedmen
Further reading edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گدمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531