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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Armenian գութան (gutʻan, “plough”), from Middle Armenian գութան (gutʻan). Cognate with Azerbaijani kotan.
Noun
قوطان • (kotan) (definite accusative قوطانی (kotanı), plural قوطانلر (kotanlar))
- kind of very large plough with multiple plowshares
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قوطان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 565
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kotan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2760
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوطان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 984
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kotan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوطان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1489