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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مردمک (mardumak), a diminutive of مَرْدُم (mardom, “people; human”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛɾdyˈmɛc/, /mɛɾdiˈmɛc/
Noun
مردمك • (merdümek, merdimek)
- (originally) manikin, titman, homunculus, a little man
- pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye
- Synonyms: حدقه (hadaka), گوز ببكی (göz bebeği)
- lentil, any of several plants of the genus Lens having edible seeds
- Synonyms: عدس (ʿades), یاصمیق (yasmık)
- chickling vetch, any plant with edible seeds of the species Lathyrus sativus
- Synonyms: جلبان (cılban), آق بورچاق (ak burçak)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mercimek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3148
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merdümek”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 740
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cicercula”, 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 179
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مردمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4568
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mercimek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1811