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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَفِينَة (safīna, “ship”).
Noun
سفینه • (sefine) (plural سفاین (sefain))
- ship, a water-borne vessel larger than a boat
- Synonyms: فلك (fulk), كشتی (keşti), كمی (gemi)
- notebook, a book in which notes or memoranda are written
- Synonym: دفتر (defter)
- (astronomy) Argo Navis, a large constellation of the Southern Hemisphere
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sefine”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4119
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sefine”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1114
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 682
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Navis”, 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 1122
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سفینه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2630
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سفینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063
Persian
Etymology
From Arabic سَفِينَة (safīna).
Pronunciation
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safīna
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safīna
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safine
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safina
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Noun
سفینه • (safine)
- spacecraft
- Synonym: فضاپیما (fazâpeymâ)
- ship, vessel
c. 1688, محمد ربیع بن ابراهیم [Moḥammad Rabiʾ b. Ebrāhim], “Introduction”, in سفینه سلیمانی [Safine-ye Solaymani]:سفینه سلیمانی که سیاحان محیط عبودیت را از تصادم بتلاطم انواع امواج بیکران سرگشتگی بساحل نجات تواند رسانید […]- safine-ye soleymâni ke sayyâhân-e mohit-e 'obudiyyat râ az tasâddom be talâtom-e anvâ'-e amvâj-e bikarân-e sargaštegi be sâhel-e nejât tavânad rasânid
- The ship of Sulaimān, which can deliver the travellers of the ocean of servitude from collision, through the dashing of ranks of unbounded waves of perplexity, to the coast of salvation
- collection of poetry