اوستره

Ottoman Turkish

اوستره

Alternative forms

• اوستوره (ustura)

Etymology

From Persian استره (ostore, “razor”).

Noun

اوستره • (ustura)

1. razor, a keen-edged knife used in shaving the hair

   Synonym: موسی (musa)

Descendants

• Turkish: ustura
• → Armenian: ուսթուրա (ustʻura)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ustura”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4999
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوستره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 189
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Novacula”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1151
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوستره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 516
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ustura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوستره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 253