كومور
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *kömür (“coal”); cognate with Azerbaijani kömür, Bashkir күмер (kümer), Chuvash кӑмрӑк (kămrăk), Kazakh көмір (kömır), Kyrgyz көмүр (kömür), Turkmen kömür, Uyghur كۆمۈر (kömür) and Uzbek koʻmir.
Noun
editكومور • (kömür)
- charcoal, a substance obtained by destructive distillation of wood
- coal, a usually black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains
- coke, the solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven
Derived terms
edit- آغاج كوموری (ağac kömürü, “charcoal”)
- طاش كوموری (taş kömürü, “stone coal”)
- كومورجی (kömürcü, “charcoal burner or dealer”)
- كومورلك (kömürlük, “coal warehouse”)
Descendants
edit- Gagauz: kömür
- Turkish: kömür
- → Albanian: qymyr
- → Armenian: քյոմուր (kʻyomur)
- → Bulgarian: кюмю́р (kjumjúr)
- → Macedonian: ќумур (ḱumur)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ćùmur / ћу̀мур
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kömür”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2783
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كومور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1060
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Carbo”, 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[2], Vienna, column 152
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كومور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4093
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kömür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كومور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1604