دگرمن
Ottoman Turkish
دگرمن
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegirmen (“mill”), from *tegir- (“round, circle; to turn, to spin”); cognate with Azerbaijani dəyirman, Bashkir тирмән (tirmän), Crimean Tatar degirmen, Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Kyrgyz тегирмен (tegirmen), Turkmen degirmen, Uyghur تۈگمەن (tügmen) and Uzbek tegirmon.
Noun
دگرمن • (değirmen)
- mill, a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains or seeds
- Synonyms: آسیا (asya), رحی (raha)
- mill, a building housing such a grinding apparatus
Derived terms
- ال دگرمنی (el değirmeni, “hand-mill”)
- دگرمنجی (değirmenci, “miller”)
- دگرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı, “millstone”)
- دگرمنلك (değirmenlik, “place of mills”)
- صو دگرمنی (su değirmeni, “watermill”)
- یل دگرمنی (yel değirmeni, “windmill”)
Descendants
- Turkish: değirmen
- → Armenian: տեյիրմեն (teyirmen)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “değirmen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1130
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دگرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mola”, 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, Vienna, column 1067
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دگرمن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2106
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “değirmen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دگرمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908