DOLMA-DOLMAN-DOLMETSCH

We have today 3 words of Turkish origin beginning with ‘DOL’

 

DOLMA

DOLMAN

DOLMETSCH

 

We begin with the shortest one:

 

DOLMA

 

A kind of food.

 

 

DOL-MA consists of 2 parts: Root + affix

Dol- means to get full and affix -ma indicates the act of (the verb). In our case "the act of filling" or "the act of getting full"..

You take a paprika or zucchini, color doesn’t matter, and FILL it with rice, spices, parsle... and at the end you have DOLMA. 

(My Mom cooked this food always without meat). 

(She always said: you can call yourself a good cook, boy, when you cook without meat and it still tastes good).

 

The Versions like Dollma, Tolma, Dolmades or Dolmeh have Turkish etymological and cultural origin.

  

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The well-known small busses in Turkey are called ‘dolmuş’ and this is a derivation from the root DOL-, meaning ‘already full’.

 

DOLMA on a stamp - Azerbaycan

 

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The 2^nd one sounds like the first one but has a very different meaning.

 

DOLMAN

 

Originally a kind of long dress, robe.

 

Sultan and 2 Followers wearing DOLMAN

 

DOL-(A)-MAN consists of 2 parts: Root + affix

Dola- means to wrap (German wickeln) and derivative affix –man shows the relation of the subject/object to the verb like=> he who ‘does’... or that that ‘does’ … (Egitmen: he who trains, Dolaman: that that wraps).*

 

The names of the other shapes and versions are ale derived etymologically from this Turkish one, like => dołman, dołoman, dolmány, Dólmã, Доломан, dolma...

Woman's dolman mantle, front & back views. Harper's Bazaar, November 1871

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 The 3^rd one is a different one. It is a human! 

Dolmetsch or Dolmetscher is a German word for Translator or Interpreter. The Urform of this word is the Turkish word DIL meaning the tongue and the affix -maç makes from the verb a profession. TILMAÇ or DiLMAÇ means the translator, too.

The words like tolmács, толмач, tolmač, тумач/tumač, tłumacz, tlumočník, тлумач or товкмач and tălmaci, they have all this root DIL, the tongue.

Extra Knowledge: The old form of Latin Lingua is Dingua.

 

DOLMETSCH  DILMAÇ Interpreter 

 

I am sorely disappointed by DUDEN because he writes:

Duden says that the origin of this word from a Near East Language.
Na na na Dude, you can do it better, I think... Turkish ist the key word you are looking for...

Uzunbacak Adem

 

 

 

·         * Source: http://www.tekedergisi.com/Makaleler/953943170_5%C5%9Fahin.pdf

                      * Pic Source: Wikipedia