اوقتانت

Ottoman Turkish

اوقتانت

Alternative forms

• اوقطانت (oktant)

Etymology

Borrowed from French octant, itself from Latin ōctans (“octant”).

Noun

اوقتانت • (oktant)

1. octant, a navigational instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation

Descendants

• Turkish: oktant

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oktant”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3600
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوقتانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 194
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقطانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260