پلاتین

Ottoman Turkish

پلاتین

Alternative forms

• پلاتینه (platina)

Etymology

Borrowed from French platine (“platinum”), itself from Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata (“silver”).

Noun

پلاتین • (platin)

1. platinum, a malleable and highly unreactive metal of silverish-white color

Descendants

• Turkish: platin

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “platin2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3871
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاتین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “platin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلاتینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 451