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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian اسرب (osrob), a variant of سرب (sorb, “lead”).
Noun
اسرب • (usrub)
- lead, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal
- Synonyms: رصاص (rasas), قورشون (kurşun)
- seal applied for transit in a custom house
Derived terms
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسرب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 88
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Plumbum”, 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, Vienna, column 1309
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسرب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 213
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسرب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 109