طولمق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tōl- (“to be full”).

Verb

طُولْمَقْ (dolmaq)

1. (intransitive) to fill up, to be filled, to be full

   اُورْلَشُوبَنْ صُولَرْ طَاشْسَه دَكِزْ طُولْمَزْ

   örläşübän sular daşsa däŋiz dolmaz

   [even] if the roaring waters overflowed the sea wouldn't fill up

2. (intransitive, figurative) to become about to explode

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: dolmaq
• Gagauz: dolmaa
• Ottoman Turkish: طولمق (dolmak)
  • Turkish: dolmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1269
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “tol-, dol-”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 342

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tolga-, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *tolug.

Verb

طُولَمَقْ (dolamaq)

1. (transitive) to wrap around
2. (transitive) to twist

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: dolamaq
• Gagauz: dolamaa
• Ottoman Turkish: طولامق (dolamak)
  • Turkish: dolamak

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “dola”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 343
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1265
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “tolga”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 342

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طُولْمَقْ (dolmaq), from Proto-Turkic *tōl- (“to be full”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dolmaq, Bashkir тулыу (tulıw), Chuvash тул (tul), Kazakh толу (tolu), Kyrgyz толуу (toluu), Uyghur تولۇق (toluq), Uzbek to'lmoq and Yakut туол (tuol).

Verb

طولمق • (dolmak)

1. (intransitive) to fill up, to become full of something

Derived terms

• دفتر طولمق (defter dolmak, “to be filled (of a register)”)
• طولدرمق (doldurmak, “to make or let become full”)
• طولغون (dolgun, “filled, stuffed”)
• طولمش (dolmuş, “filled, stuffed”)
• طولمه (dolma, “act of filling; dolma”)
• قولاق طولمق (kulak dolmak, “to be persuaded”)
• گوز طولمق (göz dolmak, “to fill with tears (of eyes)”)
• یازی طولمق (yazı dolmak, “to fill up a paper”)
• یورك طولمق (yürek dolmak, “to be full of bitterness (of the heart)”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dolmak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dolmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1269
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طولمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 319b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طولمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 823
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Implere”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 751
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طولمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3153
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dol-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طولمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1261