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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Greek *μεσάνδηρο (*mesándiro, “pedestal, mezzanine, balcony”). First attested in 1614.
Noun
موصندره • (musandıra)
- linen closet, a shelved closet used for the storage of bedlinen and associated bedding
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Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “մուսանտարա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 120–121, derives from Italian mansarda
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “musandıra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3315
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “musandıra”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 298a
- Galdies, George, Baltazzi, Alessandro, Poulimenos, George (2004) “mousándra”, in A Smyrneika Lexicon: The Language of Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey) Explained and Illustrated, 2nd edition, Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 88, derives from French mansarde, from the name of the architect François Mansart (1598–1666), but the Turkish word is attested too early for this possibility
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “موصندره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1246
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “musandıra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük