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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish كرمان (kerman, kirman), from Armenian քարման (kʻarman).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: kir‧men
Noun
kirmen
- (dialectal) wool spindle
Declension
References
- “kirmen”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ման”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 249b
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “քարաման”, 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 560b
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 782, page 155