طولغون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From طول (dol-, “to fill, stuff”) +‎ ـغون (-gun).

Adjective

طولغون • (dolgun)

filled, stuffed, full or packed with some material, substance or food
Synonym: طولمش (dolmuş)
overloaded, overfilled, chock full, jam-packed, crammed, loaded too heavily

Derived terms

طولغونلق (dolgunluk, “fullness; overloadedness”)

Descendants

Turkish: dolgun
→ Armenian: տօլղուն (tōlġun)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolgun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1268
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولغون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 822
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولغون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1261

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