اوقتانت
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- اوقطانت (oktant)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French octant, itself from Latin ōctans (“octant”).
Noun edit
اوقتانت • (oktant)
- octant, a navigational instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation
Descendants edit
- Turkish: oktant
Further reading edit
- 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