دوگمه

See also: دوكمه‎

Ottoman Turkish

دوگمه‌لر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tügme (“button”), a development of *tüg- (“to tie in a knot; make a loop”); cognate with Azerbaijani düymə, Bashkir төймә (töymä), 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 (zirr)

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
• → 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
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دوگمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, Vienna, column 655
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دوگمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2182
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “düğme”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دوگمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 925
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “دوگمه”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 441