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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Armenian փոթոր (pʻotʻor, “conical”); the pants were so called because of being wider above than below.
Noun
پوتور • (potur)
- rustic trousers, culottes, a kind of legwear wide on top and strait below fastened by hook and eye
- fold, wrinkle
- (religious slur) new convert to Islam
Descendants
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փոթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 510b
- Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler, Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 53
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 11
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوتور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 325b
- Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 27, page 130
- Stachowski, Marek (2019) “potur”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 283a
- Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوتور”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221b