دوكمه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

دوگمه‌لر

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tügme (“button”), a development of *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”); cognate with Azerbaijani düymə, Bashkir төймә (töymə), Kazakh түйме (tüime), Kyrgyz түймө (tüymö), Uyghur تۈگمە (tügme), Uzbek tugma and Yakut тимэх (timeq).

Noun

دوگمه • (dögme, dügme, döğme, düğme)

1. button, a knob or disc that is passed through a loop or buttonhole, which is used as a fastener

   Synonym: زر (zırr)

2. button, a piece of wood or metal, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten a door, etc.

Derived terms

• دوگمه‌لتمك (düğmeletmek, “to make or let be buttoned up”)
• دوگمه‌لمك (düğmelemek, “to button up”)
• دوگمه‌لنمك (düğmelenmek, “to become buttoned up”)
• دوگمه‌لو (düğmeli, “furnished with buttons”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: düğme
• → Albanian: dugme
• → Bulgarian: дюкме (djukme), дюгме (djugme) (obsolete)
• → Central Kurdish: دوگمە (dugme)
• → Macedonian: дугме (dugme)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ду̀гме

  Latin script: dùgme

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düğme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1320
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دوكمه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 235b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوكمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Globulus”, 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 655
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوكمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2182
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “düğme”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “دوكمه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 441

Etymology 2

From the root of دوكمك (dökmek, “to pour”) +‎ ـمه (-ma, -me).

Adjective

دوكمه • (dökme)

1. cast, poured, molded

Noun

دوكمه • (dökme)

1. something cast, e. g. cast iron

Derived terms

• دوكمهجی (dökmeci, “caster, founder”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dökme
• → Armenian: տէօքմէ (tēōkʻmē)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dökme”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1283
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوكمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 590
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fusus”, 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^[7], Vienna, column 636
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوكمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 2182
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوكمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “دوكمه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 441