اسقندیل

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Ottoman Turkish

اسقندیل

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scandaglio (“plummet, plumb line”).

Noun

اسقندیل • (iskandil)

plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line
Synonyms: سونده (sonda), شاقول (şakul), گز (gez), مطمار (mıtmar)
(surgery) probe, any of various instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
Synonyms: سونده (sonda), میل (mil)
(nautical) sounding line, a weighted line used to measure the depth of water

Derived terms

اسقندیل آتمق (iskandil atmak, “to cast the lead”)
اسقندیل ایتمك (iskandil etmek, “to sound, probe”)
اسقندیل صاولوسی (iskandil savlosu, “sounding line”)
ال اسقندیلی (el iskandili, “hand plummet”)

Descendants

Turkish: iskandil

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iskandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2217
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “iscandil”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 41
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iskandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111

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