طوپخانه

Ottoman Turkish

طوپخانه

Etymology

طوپ (top, “cannon”) +‎ خانه (hane, “house”).

Noun

طوپخانه • (tophane)

1. cannon-manufacture, gun factory, military foundry
2. arsenal, the headquarters of the artillery

Descendants

• Turkish: tophane
• → Arabic: طُوبْخَانَة (ṭūbḵāna)
• → Armenian: թոփխանե (tʻopʻxane), թոփխանա (tʻopʻxana)
• → Azerbaijani: топхана ?
• → Bulgarian: топхана (tophana)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (“ammunition”)

  Cyrillic script: топха̀на

  Latin script: tophàna

Proper noun

طوپخانه • (tophane)

1. Tophane (a neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey), named after the nearby factories.

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1249