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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic طَنْطَنَة (ṭanṭana, “twang, ringing, drum roll”), a word of onomatopoeic origin related to طَنَّ (ṭanna, “to ring, to clang”) and طَنَّان (ṭannān, “ringing, buzzing”). Compare Azerbaijani təntənə and Bashkir тантана (tantana).
Noun
طنطنه • (tantana)
- humming, buzzing, thrumming, the sound of something that hums
- Synonyms: اوغلدی (uğuldu), زر (zır)
- pomp, parade, any ostentatious display or show of magnificence
- Synonym: دبدبه (debdebe)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tantana”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4586
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tantana”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1234
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طنطنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 808
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pompa”, 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, columns 1315-1316
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طنطنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3130
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tantana”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طنطنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1246