صافره
Ottoman Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Byzantine Greek σαβούρα (saboúra). Cognate with Italian zavorra and many other words around the Mediterranean. Doublet of صابوره (sabura), which passed through Arabic.
Noun
editصافره • (safra)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: safra
References
edit- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 837, page 561
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150.