طولوم

Ottoman Turkish

طولوم

Alternative forms

• طلوم (tulum), طولم (tulum)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tulum (“a skin container”), probably a development of *tōl- (“to swell”). Cognate with Azerbaijani tuluq and Mongolian тулум (tulum).

Noun

طولوم • (tulum) (definite accusative طولومی (tulumu), plural طولوملر (tulumlar))

1. skin or hide taken off whole and used as a receptacle

   Synonyms: آبكش (abkeş), قربه (kırba), مطره (matara)

2. bagpipes, a wind instrument possessing a flexible bag

   Synonym: غایده (gâyda)

3. pair of squares of fur ready for making up into a pelisse

Derived terms

• طولوم قارنلو (tulum karınlı, “puffy, bloated”)
• طولوم كبی شیشمك (tulum gibi şişmek, “to swell up like a waterskin”)
• طولوم پنیری (tulum peyniri, “kind of cheese”)
• طولوم چیقارمق (tulum çıkarmak, “to flay off a skin or hide”)
• طولومجی (tulumcu, “maker or seller of waterskins”)
• كورك طولومی (kürk tulumu, “pair of squares of fur”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tulum
• → Albanian: tollumbë
• → Armenian: թուլում (tʻulum)
• → Greek: τουλούμι (touloúmi)
• → Laz: თულუმი (tulumi), ტულუმი (ťulumi)
• → Serbo-Croatian: tùlum, ту̀лум

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طلوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 292
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tulum1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4908
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طولم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 319a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Uter”, 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 1797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولوم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3152
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tulum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262