مرآت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مِرْآة (mirʔāh, “mirror”).

Noun

مرآت • (mirʾat) (plural مرایا (meraya))

1. mirror, a surface usually made of glass, that reflects light

   Synonyms: آینه (ayna), گوزگی (gözgü)

Descendants

• Turkish: mirʾat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mirʾat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3235
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mir'ât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 778
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرآت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1143
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Speculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1581
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرآت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4539
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرآت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1796