طوغله

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • توغله (tuğla)

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek τούγλα (toúgla, roof cover made of terracotta, tile), itself from Latin tēgula (tile).

Noun

طوغله • (tuğla) (definite accusative طوغله‌یی (tuğlayı), plural طوغله‌لر (tuğlalar))

  1. brick (building block; object shaped like a brick)
    Synonyms: آجر (âcür), طوبه (tube)
    • 1894, “اختراعات و كسفیات [ihtira'at ve keşfiyyat, inventions and discoveries]”, in Nevsal-i Servet-i Fünun[1], page 30:
      پترولك مایع اوله‌رق نقلی مشكل اولدیغندن تصلب ایتدیریله‌رك طوغله شكلنده كلمسی، استعمالنی غایت تسهیل ایده‌جكدر.
      Petrolin mayi olarak nakli müşkül olduğundan tassalüb ettirilerek tuğla şekilinde gelmesi, istimalini gayet teshil edecektir.
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Derived terms

  • خام طوغله (ham tuğla, slackly-baked brick)
  • طوغله اوجاغی (tuğla ocağı, brick kiln)
  • طوغله بنا (tuğla bina, building made of bricks)
  • طوغله دوشه‌مك (tuğla döşemek, to floor with bricks)
  • طوغله كارخانه‌سی (tuğla kârhanesi, brick factory)
  • طوغله چاپی (tuğla çapı, brick mould)
  • طوغله‌جی (tuğlacı, maker of bricks)
  • طوپاق طوغله (topak tuğla, very thick brick)
  • عناد طوغله‌سی (ʼinad tuğlası, refractory brick)
  • چاپ طوغله (çap tuğla, square brick)
  • چیك طوغله (çiğ tuğla, unbaked brick)
  • چینی طوغله (çini tuğla, enameled brick)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tuğla
  • Albanian: tullë
  • Armenian: թուղլա (tʻuġla)
  • Laz: თუღლა (tuğla), თუღულა (tuğula)Arkabi

Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “طوغله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 318
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tuğla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4903
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “طوغله”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 318a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “طوغله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 819
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Later”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[4], Vienna, column 918
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “طوغله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[5], Vienna, column 3146
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tuğla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “طوغله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1257