فرنسه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Venetian Firense and Italian Firenze, from Old Italian Fiorenze, from Latin Flōrentia, from flōrēns (“flowering”) + -ia (“forming place names”).

Proper noun

فرنسه • (Firense)

1. Florence (a city in Italy)

References

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