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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Ligurian tersaná, from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”), with the ending influenced by the common suffix خانه (hane). See Turkish tersane for cognates.
Noun
ترسانه • (tersane) (plural ترسانهلر)
- arsenal
- dockyard, especially the Imperial Arsenal
1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk, page 627:جبراً و حیله ایله عزیز وطنك ، بوتون قلعهلری ضبط ایدلمش ، بوتون ترسانهلرینه كیرلمش ، بوتون اردولری داغیتلمش و مملكتك هر كوشهسی بالفعل اشغال ایدلمش اولهبیلیر.- Cebren ve hile ile aziz vatanın bütün kaleleri zapt edilmiş, bütün tersanelerine girilmiş, bütün orduları dağıtılmış ve memleketin her köşesi bilfiil işgal edilmiş olabilir.
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Descendants
References
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ترسخانه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 152
- 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, § 645
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tersane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532