مطره

Ottoman Turkish

مطره

Alternative forms

• مطاره (metare, medara, matara)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “waterskin”), from Aramaic מַטְרְתָא (maṭərṯā, “double sack for grain, gold etc.”), ultimately from Ancient Greek μετρητής (metrētḗs).

Noun

مطره • (matara or metre or medre or metra) (definite accusative مطره‌یی (matarayı), plural مطره‌لر (mataralar))

1. waterskin, field-flask, a container for water normally made of tanned skin

   Synonyms: آبكش (abkeş), طولوم (tulum), قربه (kırba)

2. (chemistry) matrass, a type of bolthead flask used in chemical distillation
3. a liquid measure around 10–20 litres and a dry measure over 5 kilograms

Derived terms

• مطره‌جی (mataracı, “man designated to carry a waterskin”)

Descendants

• Turkish: matara
• → Armenian: մաթարայ (matʻaray)
• → Georgian: მათარა (matara)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مطره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 770
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “matara1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3078
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “matara”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 699
• Hinz, Walther (1955, 1970) Islamische Maße und Gewichte: umgerechnet ins metrische System (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: der nahe und der mittlere Osten; Ergänzungsband 1, Heft 1) (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 45
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مطره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1184
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lagena coriacea”, 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 909
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مطره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 4729-4730
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “matara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مطره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1890