سونده

Ottoman Turkish

سونده‌لر

Alternative forms

• سوندا (sonda)

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonde or Italian sonda (“sonde, probe”).

Noun

سونده • (sonda)

1. plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line

   Synonyms: اسقندیل (iskandil), شاقول (şakul), گز (gez), مطمار (mıtmar)

2. (surgery) probe, any of various instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

   Synonyms: اسقندیل (iskandil), میل (mil)

3. catheter, a small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug or remove fluid

Descendants

• Turkish: sonda

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sonda”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2843
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سونده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 49
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sonda”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوندا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095