سلانیك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Σαλονίκη (Saloníkē), q.v.

Proper noun

سلانیك • (Selânik)

1. Thessaloniki (a city in the Macedonia region, Greece).

Derived terms

• سلانیكی (Selaniki, “of Thessaloniki”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Selanik

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Thessalonica”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1671
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سلانیك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2652
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سلانیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1071
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Selanik”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 671