مرسین
See also: مرسين
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسِين (marsīn), itself from Ancient Greek μυρσίνη (mursínē).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
مرسین • (mersin)
- myrtle (Myrtus communis)
- Synonym: مورد (murd)
Derived terms edit
- مرسین بالغی (mersin balığı, “sturgeon”)
Descendants edit
Proper noun edit
مرسین • (Mersin)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: Mersin
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mersin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرسین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Myrtus”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1114
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرسین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 4572
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mersin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرسین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812