مارغریت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مارغاریتا (margarıta)

Etymology

From Venetian margarita (“sheepshank”).

Noun

مارغریت • (margarıt)

1. sheepshank

References

• 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, § 397, page 293