لیمان رئیسی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لیمان (liman, “port”) +‎ رئیس (reʼis, “leader, captain”).

Noun

لیمان رئیسی • (liman reʼisi)

1. harbormaster, an official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port

Descendants

• Turkish: liman reisi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “liman reisi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2968
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لیمان رئیسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1086
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیمان رئیسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1650