طولون

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Ottoman Turkish

طولون

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tuluŋ (“temple; braid or plait of hair”);[1] cognate with Bashkir толом (tolom), Kazakh тұлым (tūlym), Khakas тулунъ (tulunʺ), Kyrgyz тулум (tulum), Shor тулуң (tuluñ) and Southern Altai тулуҥ (tuluŋ).

Noun

طولون • (tulun) (definite accusative طولونی (tulunu), plural طولونلر (tulunlar))

  1. temple, the slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind the eye and forehead, and forward of the ear
    Synonyms: شقاق (şakak), صدغ (sadg)

Descendants

  • Turkish: dulun, dulung, tulun

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tuluŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 501

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