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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From شكر (şeker, “sugar”) + ـستان (-stan, “suffix forming placenames”).
Noun
شكرستان • (şekeristan)
- plantation of sugar cane
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكرستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2841–2842
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكرستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132