باصمه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بصمه (basma)

Etymology

From باصـ (bas-, “to print, press”) +‎ ـمه (-ma).

Noun

باصمه • (basma) (definite accusative باصمه‌یی (basmayı), plural باصمه‌لر (basmalar))

1. verbal noun of باصمق (basmak):
   1. printing, typography, the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press

      Synonym: طبع (tabʼ)

   2. print, imprintery, books and other paper-material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium
   3. calico, a kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern

      Synonym: قالیقوت (kalikot)

Derived terms

• باصمه چرخی (basma çarhı, “printing press”)
• باصمه‌جی (basmacı, “typographer, printer”)
• باصمه‌خانه (basmahâne, “printing establishment”)
• باقر باصمه‌سی (bakır basması, “copper-plate printing”)
• طاش باصمه‌سی (taş basması, “lithography”)
• قالب باصمه‌سی (kalıb basması, “letter-press”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: basma
• → Adyghe: басмэ (basmɛ)
• → Arabic: بَصْمَة (baṣma)
• → Armenian: պասմա (pasma)
• → Macedonian: басма (basma)
• → Romanian: basma

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باصمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 267
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 480
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باصمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 241
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Typographia”, 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 1708
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بصمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 838
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 328