շամանտուրա

Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish شماندوره (şamandura), شماندره (şamandra, şamandara, şamandıra).

Noun edit

շամանտուրա (šamantura)

  1. (Istanbul) buoy, barrel swimming in the water fixed to an anchor so ships can be moored to it

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “շամանտուրա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 126
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “շամանտուռա”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 258