تنین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تِنِّين (tinnīn, “sea serpent, dragon”).

Noun

تنین • (tinnin) (plural تنانین)

1. fabulous serpent of enormous size, dragon

   Synonyms: اژدها (ejdeha), ثعبان (suʿban), غول (ğul)

2. (astronomy) Draco, a circumpolar constellation

Descendants

• Turkish: tinnin

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tinnin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4830
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تنین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 408
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Draco”, 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 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تنین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1443
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 603