طوان
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- طاوان
- تاوان
Etymology
Unknown. Nişanyan does not consider Old Turkic [script needed] (taban) to be related and doubts the similar Classical Syriac ܬܘܢܐ (tawwān, “room”) is the origin.
Noun
طوان • (tavan)
- attic
Descendants
- Turkish: tavan
- → Armenian: թավան (tʿavan)
- → Albanian: tavan
- → Bulgarian: таван (tavan)
- → Greek: ταβάνι (taváni)
- → Macedonian: таван (tavan)
- → Romanian: tavan
- → Serbo-Croatian: tavan, таван
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tavan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تاوان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 481