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Crimean Tatar
Pronunciation
Noun
torun
- grandchild; grandson, granddaughter
- (rare) nephew, niece
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Finnish
Verb
torun
- first-person singular present indicative of torua
Anagrams
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish تورون (torun), from Proto-Turkic *tōr- (“young of an animal”), whence also dialectal Turkish tor, torum, torbuç and toru. For the semantic extension from 'young of an animal' to 'child/grandchild', compare Turkish çocuk. Cognate with Azerbaijani turun (“a two years old young camel; lineage”), Turkmen torum (“young of a camel”), Tatar турун (turun, “grandchild”), Crimean Tatar turun (“grandchild; niece, nephew”). Compare also Kumyk торай (toray, “piglet; child; grandchild”), Kazakh торай (torai, “piglet”), etc.
The similarity to Old Armenian թոռն (tʻoṙn, “grandchild”) is accidental.
Noun
torun (definite accusative torunu, plural torunlar)
- grandchild; grandson, granddaughter
- (figuratively) a person that follows the same descent with another
- (figuratively) a person that follows, likes or sympathizes someone.
- (slang) an inexperienced soldier
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Descendants
Further reading
- Pedersen, Holger (1906) “Armenisch und die Nachbarsprachen”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 39, number 3, page 462, derives from Old Armenian թոռն (tʻoṙn)
Etymology 2
Noun
torun
- definite genitive singular of tor