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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مِرْآة (mirʔāh, “mirror”).
Noun
مرآت • (mirʾat) (plural مرایا (meraya))
- mirror, a surface usually made of glass, that reflects light
- Synonyms: آینه (ayna), گوزگی (gözgü)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mirʾat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3235
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mir'ât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 778
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرآت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1143
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Speculum”, 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 1581
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرآت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4539
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرآت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1796