شماندره

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Ottoman Turkish

شماندره
شماندره
شماندره

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Etymology

From Greek τσαμαδούρα (tsamadoúra, “buoy”), a variant of σημαδούρα (simadoúra, “buoy”), from σημάδι (simádi, “mark”) +‎ -ούρα (-oúra), earlier σημαντούρα (simantoúra, “buoy”), continuing Ancient Greek σημαντήρ (sēmantḗr, “buoy”).

Noun

شماندره • (şamandra, şamandara, şamandıra)

  1. buoy, barrel swimming in the water fixed to an anchor so ships can be moored to it
  2. socket of a lamp, a bung swimming in the oil of a nightlight to support its wick, a frame or float upholding the wick on the surface of a lamp

Usage notes

To make the object in a lamp denoted here clear, this antiquary’s photographs of oil lamp parts are pertinent, and it is expressed here that, while the English term seems just to be the colorless socket, the parts are called in German Lampentülle, Leuchterdille, Lampenröhre etc., in French lamperon, douille, tuyau d’un chandelier, in Russian тру́бка въ ла́мпѣ (trúbka v lámpě). The sense is continued in Modern Turkish as an elektrikli şamandıra and other technical senses.

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