دستره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دستره (dastare, “handsaw”).

Noun

دستره • (destere)

1. handsaw, a saw small enough to be used by one hand

Derived terms

• دستره بالغی (destere balığı, “sawfish”)
• زمین دسترهسی (zemin desteresi, “trepan”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: testere

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “destere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1181
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دستره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 572
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Serra”, 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 1547
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دستره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2077
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “testere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دستره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 902

Persian

Alternative forms

• دست اره (dast-arre)
• دستر (dastar)

Etymology

From دست (dast, “hand”) + اره (arre, “saw”).

Noun

Dari	دستره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дастарра

دستره • (dastare, dastarre)

1. handsaw