Back تومين (وحدة) Arabic Tümən (qoşun) AZ Tümen Czech Тĕмен (çар) CV Tumen Spanish تومن (واحد) FA טומן HE तुमेन HI Tömény Hungarian Tumen (satuan) ID
Tumen, or tümen ("unit of ten thousand";[1] Old Turkic: tümän; Mongolian: Түмэн, tümen;[2][3] Turkish: tümen; Hungarian: tömény), was a decimal unit of measurement used by the Turkic and Mongol peoples to quantify and organize their societies in groups of 10,000. A tumen denotes a tribal unit of 10,000 households, or a military unit of 10,000 soldiers.
English Orientalist Sir Gerard Clauson (1891-1974) defined tümän as immediately borrowed from Tokharian tmān, which according to Edwin G. Pulleyblank might have been etymologically inherited from Old Chinese tman or 萬.[4]
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- ^ Vietze, Wörterbuch Mongolisch - Deutsch, VEB 1988
- ^ The Silk Road And The Korean Language
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972). An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish. Oxford, Clarendon Press. p. 507. ISBN 0198641125.