طوزله

Ottoman Turkish

طوزله

Etymology

Ultimately from طوز (tuz, “salt”).

Noun

طوزله • (tuzla)

1. saltern, saltworks, salt pan, any area or installation for making salt

   Synonym: مملحه (memleha)

Proper noun

Tuzla district

طوزله • (tuzla)

1. Tuzla (a city and district in Istanbul province, Turkey)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tuzla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4930
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوزله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 817b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Salina”, 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 1503
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوزله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3144
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Tuzla”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوزله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Tuzla”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[5], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 767