تلوه
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, but perhaps from Persian دلو (dalv, “pail, bucket”), from Arabic دَلْو (dalw).
Noun[edit]
تلوه • (telve)
- sediment, dregs, grounds
- coffee grounds, sediments of coffee
- bore, a tiresome and persistent man
- sot, a man who stupefies himself with opium
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: telve
- → Arabic: تَنْوَة (tanwa)
- → Armenian: թելֆե (tʻelfe), ⇒ Թելֆեյան (Tʻelfeyan)
- → Cypriot Greek: ττερβές (ttervés)
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “telve2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4715
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 400
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “telvé”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 140, compares to Greek τέφρα (téfra) and derives from Arabic تُفْل (tufl, “dregs, lees, sediment, settlings; residue”) or Arabic تَنْوَة (tanwa)
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تلوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, columns 1375–1376
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “telve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تلوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 590