тютюнъ

Old Ruthenian

тютю́нъ

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish توتون (tütün), reinforced by Crimean Tatar tütün, from Proto-Turkic *tütün, from *tüt(e)-. Doublet of тыту́нъ (tytún). First attested in the late 1600s.

Noun

тютюнъ • (tjutjun) m inan (genitive тютюну́, related adjective тютю́нний)

1. (uncountable) tobacco (plant and its leaves used for smoking)

   Synonyms: таба́къ (tabák), (dialectal) тыту́нъ (tytún)

Derived terms

• тютю́нница (tjutjúnnica)
• тютю́нникъ (tjutjúnnik)

Descendants

• Belarusian: цюцю́н (cjucjún), тютю́н (tjutjún) (dialectal)
• Ukrainian: тютю́н (tjutjún); тюті́н (tjutín) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2014), “тютюнъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 34 (тресолнечный – умопомятенье), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 101