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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian gomena (“hawser”), itself from Arabic جُمَان (jumān, “tassel, puff”). Doublet of جمان (cuman, “silver beads”).
Noun
غومنه • (gomena or gumena) (definite accusative غومنهیی (gomenayı), plural غومنهلر (gomenalar))
- (nautical) cable, a strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gomena”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1730
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 332, page 252
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غومنه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 878
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 77
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غومنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1355