تلوه

Ottoman Turkish

تلوه

Etymology

Uncertain, but perhaps from Persian دلو (dalv, “pail, bucket”), from Arabic دَلْو (dalw).

Noun

تلوه • (telve)

1. sediment, dregs, grounds
2. coffee grounds, sediments of coffee
3. bore, a tiresome and persistent man
4. sot, a man who stupefies himself with opium

Descendants

• Turkish: telve
• → Arabic: تَنْوَة (tanwa)
• → Armenian: թելֆե (tʻelfe), ⇒ Թելֆեյան (Tʻelfeyan)
• → Cypriot Greek: ττερβές (ttervés)
• → Greek: ντελβές (ntelvés)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “telve2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4715
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلوه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 400
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “telvé”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 140, compares to Greek τέφρα (téfra) and derives from Arabic تُفْل (tufl, “dregs, lees, sediment, settlings; residue”) or Arabic تَنْوَة (tanwa)
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تلوه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 1375–1376
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “telve”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تلوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 590