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Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tām (“roof”); cognate with Old Turkic (tam), Azerbaijani dam, Uyghur تام (tam), Uzbek tom, Kazakh: там (tam), Kyrgyz там (tam) and Korean 담 (dam).
Noun
طام • (dam)
- (architecture) roof, the external covering at the top of a building
- Synonym: چاتی (çatı)
- (in parts of Asia Minor) house, a structure build as an abode of human beings
- outbuilding, outhouse, roofed shed
Derived terms
- طاملامق (damlamak, “to roof a house”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1089
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 795
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tectum”, 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 1652
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3077–3078
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1227