پوتور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Armenian փոթոր (pʻotʻor, “conical”); the pants were so called because of being wider above than below.

Noun

پوتور • (potur)

  1. rustic trousers, culottes, a kind of legwear wide on top and strait below fastened by hook and eye
  2. fold, wrinkle
  3. (religious slur) new convert to Islam

Descendants
  • Turkish: potur
  • → Egyptian Arabic: بطر (buṭr)
  • → Armenian: փօթուր (pʻōtʻur)
  • → Bulgarian: потурна́к (poturnák)
  • → Macedonian: потур (potur), потурнак (poturnak), потурјак (poturjak)
  • → Romanian: poturi
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: по̀тур
    Latin script: pòtur

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փոթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 510b
  • Blau, Otto (1868) Bosnisch-türkische Sprachdenkmäler‎, Berlin: F. A. Brockhaus, page 53
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 11
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوتور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 325b
  • Kraelitz, Friedrich (1913) “Türkische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 27, page 130
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019) “potur”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 283a
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوتور”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221b
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