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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Unclear. Akin to the synonymous Armenian լոկոն (lokon), North Levantine Arabic لَاقُونَة (lāqūne), لَاُقُومَة (lāqūme), لُقُونَة (luqūne, “a kind of putty from resin and bricks, or from not utterly slaked lime, olive oil and cotton”). Given the semantic development of جُرْن (jurn) “basin, trough for liquid to retreat” → “mixing tub, mortar box, bin where plaster is compounded”, this may be a remnant of the plural لُكُون (lukūn) or لُقُون (luqūn) of Arabic لَكَن (lakan), لَقَن (laqan, “washbasin”), or more likely an Aramaic diminutive formation of the same word like طَلْمُوسَة (ṭalmūse, “talmouse”).
Noun
لوكون • (lökün or lükün) (definite accusative لوكونی (lökünü, lükünü), plural لوكونلر (lökünler, lükünler))
- lute, thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight
- Synonym: لوك (lök)
Descendants
References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լոկոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 292a derives the Armenian and Turkish from Arabic
- Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, pages 424b, 470b connects Armenian լոկոն (lokon), Ottoman Turkish لوكون (lökün) and Arabic لَاقُونَة (lāqūne)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “لوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 708
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lökün”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2982
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوكون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1084
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوكون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1644