قسطل

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Arabic

قَسْطَلَانِ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic קַסְטֵל (qasṭēl), from Latin castellum (fortress; reservoir).

Noun

قَسْطَل (qasṭalm (plural قَسَاطِل (qasāṭil))

  1. water conduit, water pipeline
Declension
قَسْطَل

Etymology 2

Noun

قَسْطَل (qasṭalm

  1. alternative form of كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ, chestnut)
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “قسطل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 344–345
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 25
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قسطل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 443
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قسطل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1024

Moroccan Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic قَسْطَل (qasṭal), a variant of كَسْتَنَاء (kastanāʔ), from Ancient Greek κάστανα (kástana).

Pronunciation

Noun

قسطل (qasṭalm (collective, singulative قسطلة f (qasṭla), paucal قسطلات (qasṭlāt))

  1. chestnuts

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian castello (castle).

Noun

قسطل (kastel) (definite accusative قسطلی (kasteli), plural قسطللر (kasteller))

  1. castle, fortress, stronghold, fort, any fortified place built to withstand attack
    Synonyms: حصار (hisar), حصن (hısn), دز (diz), قلعه (kalʼe), كرمان (kerman)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kastel

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kastel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2460
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Castellum”, 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 158
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قسطل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3695
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قسطل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1453