چمنتو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cemento (“cement”).

Noun

چمنتو • (çemento)

cement, a powdered substance that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water

Descendants

Turkish: çimento
- → Northern Kurdish: çîmento
→ Albanian: çimento
→ Armenian: չիմէնթօ (čʻimēntʻō), չմանթո (čʻmantʻo)
→ Greek: τσιμέντο (tsiménto)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çimento”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 999
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چمنتو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 474
Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “tchémento”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 347
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çimento”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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