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 (tirmən), Crimean Tatar degirmen, Kazakh диірмен (diırmen), Kyrgyz тегирмен (tegirmen), Turkmen degirmen, Uyghur تۈگمەن (tügmen) and Uzbek tegirmon.

Noun

دگرمن • (değirmen)

1. mill, a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains or seeds

   Synonyms: آسیا (asya), رحی (raha)

2. mill, a building housing such a grinding apparatus

Derived terms

• ال دگرمنی (el değirmeni, “hand-mill”)
• دگرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı, “millstone”)
• دگرمنجی (değirmenci, “miller”)
• 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
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دگرمن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 226a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دگرمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 2106
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “değirmen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دگرمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 908