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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From طول (dol-, “to fill, stuff”) + ـغون (-gun).
Adjective
طولغون • (dolgun)
- filled, stuffed, full or packed with some material, substance or food
- Synonym: طولمش (dolmuş)
- overloaded, overfilled, chock full, jam-packed, crammed, loaded too heavily
Derived terms
- طولغونلق (dolgunluk, “fullness; overloadedness”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolgun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1268
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 822
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1261