طولاب
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دولاب (dolab)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dulâb, “water-wheel”).
Noun
طولاب • (dolab)
- thing which turns round, such as a water wheel or a treadmill
- tradesman's or merchant's business, vortex of affairs
- giddiness, vertigo, a sensation of loss of balance
- drum belly, hoove, tympanites, a disease in cattle
Derived terms
- ایپك طولابی (ipek dolabi, “silk-winder”)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Persian دولاب (dolâb, “cupboard; closet”).
Noun
طولاب • (dolab)
- cupboard, sideboard, board used to openly hold dishware
- turnstile, a rotating cupboard which divides the harem from the selamlik
- (figuratively) trick, intrigue, fraud, machination
Derived terms
- طولابجی (dolabcı, “maker of cupboards or turnstiles”)
Descendants
- Turkish: dolap
- → Albanian: dollap
- → Bulgarian: дола́п (doláp)
- → Romanian: dulap
- → Greek: ντουλάπι (doulápi)
- → Ladino: dolap
- → Serbo-Croatian: dòlāp
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dolap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1266
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طولاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 821
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Armarium”, 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 84
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طولاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3151
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dolap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طولاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1260