Etymology

From Old Turkic tuman "mist, fog", probably from Proto-Turkic *dum ‎(“cold”).

Unknown whether related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós ‎(“smoke”) (Sanskrit धूम ‎(dhūma, “smoke, mist, vapor”), Latin fūmus ‎(“vapor, smoke”), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬥𐬨𐬀𐬥- ‎(dunman-), etc.)

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] ‎(tuman, “mist, fog”); Kazakh тұман ‎(tuman), Uzbek tuman, Uyghur تۇمان‎ ‎(tuman‎), Yakut туман ‎(tuman), Turkish duman ‎(“mist, fog”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʊ̞ˈmɑn]
• Hyphenation: то‧ман