pusula
See also: Pusula
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish پوصوله (pusula), from Italian bùssola (“compass”), derived from Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”). Spread in the 14th century after the invention of compasses being boxed.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpusula (definite accusative pusulayı, plural pusulalar)
- compass (navigational compass)
- note
- memorandum
Declension
editReferences
edit- 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, § 133
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