باستون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• باسطون (baston)

Etymology

From Venetian bastón (Italian bastone).

Noun

باستون • (baston)

1. walking stick
2. (nautical) boom

Descendants

• Turkish: baston
• → Armenian: պաստօն (pastōn)
• → Laz: ბასთონი (bastoni), ბასტონი (basťoni)

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 85, page 102
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باسطون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 323