دودو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

According to Tietze, transferred from the female given name Dudu.

Noun

دودو • (dudu)

1. a title given to women (obsolete by 19th century)
2. an old Armenian woman

Descendants

• Turkish: dudu
• → Armenian: տուտու (tutu)
• → Romanian: duduie

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “տուտու”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 1042b
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “dudu”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § E189, page 191
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دودو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 584b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dudu2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Tietze, Andreas (2002) “dudu II, dudu IV”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 657 = Tietze, Andreas (2009) “dudu II, dudu IV”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 445