tersane
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
tersane m
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish ترسانه (tersane), from Ligurian tersaná, from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Cognate with Italian darsena and Spanish dársena and more distantly with English arsenal. The Turkish borrowing sometimes mutates to tershane under the influence of the common suffix hane.
Noun edit
tersane (definite accusative tersaneyi, plural tersaneler)
- dockyard, especially (historical) the Imperial Arsenal at Constantinople
References edit
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 645
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tersane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532