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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek σαβούρα (saboúra). Cognate with Italian zavorra and many other words around the Mediterranean. Doublet of صابوره (sabura), which passed through Arabic.
Noun
صافره • (safra)
- (nautical) ballast
Descendants
References
- 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, § 837, page 561
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150.