گدمان
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kētmen (“hoe, mattock”); cognate with Azerbaijani kətmən, Bashkir кәтмән (kətmən), Chuvash катмак (katmak), Kazakh кетпен (ketpen), Kyrgyz кетмен (ketmen), Turkmen kätmen, Uyghur كەتمەن (ketmen) and Uzbek ketmon.
Noun[edit]
گدمان • (gedman, gedmen)
- mattock, an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body
- Synonym: معول (miʿvel)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: gedmen
Further reading[edit]
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گدمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531