طولوس

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Ottoman Turkish

طولوس

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, rotunda; vault).

Noun

طولوس (tolos)

  1. vault, an arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling

Descendants

  • Turkish: tonoz
  • Armenian: թօնօզ (tʻōnōz)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tonoz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4863
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طولس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 319a
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 145
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3152
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tonoz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1262