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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Middle Persian (ʾryšn /arašn/, “cubit”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎴𐎡 (a-r-š-n-i /arašni/, “cubit”). Compare Southern Altai арчын (arčïn), Turkmen arçyn, Kalmyk арчм (arçm).
Noun
آرشون • (arşun, arşın)
- a linear measure of 0.68 metres, cubit, yard
- Synonyms: (Persian) گز (gez), (Arabic) ذراع (zira)
Descendants
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرشین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 143
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “100. ARŠÍN”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 80