اور طشرهسی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina), analyzed as اور (or, “fence, wall”) + طشره (taşra, “outer, exterior”).
Proper noun edit
- Ukraine (a historical region in Eastern Europe, surrounding the modern country of Ukraine)
Usage notes edit
This was used for the region surrounding the modern country of the same name as it was used during the Ottoman era.
See also edit
References edit
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اور طشرهسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 241