شریان

See also: شريان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شِرْيَان (širyān, “artery”), itself from Classical Syriac ܫܶܪܝܳܢܳܐ (šeryānā, “joint, sinew, articulation, artery”).

Noun

شریان • (şiryan) (plural شرایین (şerayin))

1. (anatomy) artery, any of the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

Derived terms

• شریان صاعد (şiryan-ı saʿid, “ascending aorta”)
• شریان نازل (şiryan-ı nazil, “descending aorta”)
• شریان وریدی (şiryan-ı veridi, “pulmonary artery”)
• شریانی (şiryani, “arterial”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şiryan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şiryan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4493
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şiryân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1198
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شریان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 726
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arteria”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 87
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شریان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2808
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شریان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1123