ماسوره

Ottoman Turkish

ماسوره‌لر

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَاسُورَة (māsūra, “bobbin, reel”), from the passive participle of the verb أَسَرَ (ʔasara, “to bind”).

Noun

ماسوره • (masura or masra)

1. bobbin, spool, a cylinder or spindle around which threads, wires or cables are wound

   Synonyms: استاج (istac), مقره (makara)

2. spout, a tube or duct through which a liquid, especially water, is poured or discharged

   Synonyms: امزك (emzik), اوج (uc)

3. masura, a unit of measure of volumetric flow equivalent approximatively to 4.5 L/min
4. (anatomy) duct, a vessel that conveys lymph or secretions such as tears, bile or saliva

Descendants

• Turkish: masura, masıra, masra, masır
• → Albanian: masur
• → Aromanian: mãsur
• → Bulgarian: масу́р (masúr)
• → Georgian: მასრა (masra)
• →⇒ Greek: μασούρι (masoúri)
• → Middle Armenian: մասուրայ (masuray)
  • Armenian: մասուրա (masura), մասրա (masra)
• → Pontic Greek: μασούρα (masoúra), μασούριν (masoúrin), μασούρι (masoúri), μασούρ' (masoúr')
• → Romanian: mosor
• → Serbo-Croatian: mòsūr / мо̀сӯр

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “masura1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3075
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ماسوره”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 415a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ماسوره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1092
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Panus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1438
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ماسوره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4238
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “masura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماسوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1657

Persian

Alternative forms

• ماشوره (mâšura) (obsolete)
• مشله (mošla) (Dari)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈsuː.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.sú.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.súː.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.sú.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	māsūra
Dari reading?	māsūra
Iranian reading?	mâsure
Tajik reading?	mosura

Noun

ماسوره • (mâsure)

1. bobbin, reel