دوگمه

دوگمه

See also: دوكمه‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From the verb دیكمك‎ (dikmek, “to sew, to fix”), or see Bashkir төймә (töymä) for cognates.

Noun

دوگمه • (dögme, dügme, döğme, düğme)

1. knob, button

Derived terms

• دوگمه‌لمك / دوگملمك‎ (dögmelemek, dügmelemek, döğmelemek, düğmelemek, “to button up”)
• دوگمه‌جی / دوگمجی‎ (dögmeci, dügmeci, döğmeci, düğmeci, “button-maker”)

Descendants

• Turkish: düğme
• → Bulgarian: дюкме (djukme), дюгме (djugme) (obsolete)
• → Kurdish: دوگمه‎‎ (dugma)
• → Macedonian: дугме (dugme)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̀гме

  Latin: dùgme

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دوگمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2182
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “düğme”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “دوگمه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 441