گدمان

Ottoman Turkish

گدمان

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kētmen (“hoe, mattock”); cognate with Azerbaijani kətmən, Bashkir кәтмән (kətmən), Chuvash катмак (katmak), Kazakh кетпен (ketpen), Kyrgyz кетмен (ketmen), Turkmen kätmen, Uyghur كەتمەن (ketmen) and Uzbek ketmon.

Noun

گدمان • (gedman, gedmen)

mattock, an agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body
Synonym: معول (miʿvel)

Descendants

Turkish: gedmen

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گدمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1531

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