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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Venetian ciaveta (“small key”), from Italian chiavetta (“small key”).
Noun
جیواطه • (civata)
- bolt in a ship, treenail
Descendants
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جیواطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 454
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جیواطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 697