چمنتو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cemento (“cement”).

Noun

چمنتو • (çemento)

1. cement, a powdered substance that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water

Descendants

• Turkish: çimento
  • → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
• → Albanian: çimento
• → Armenian: չիմէնթօ (čʻimēntʻō), չմանթո (čʻmantʻo)
• → Greek: τσιμέντο (tsiménto)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çimento”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 999
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چمنتو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 474
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “tchémento”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 347
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çimento”, in Nişanyan Sözlük