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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قصر (kasr, kasır, “fort; castle; palace; summer house”), from Arabic قَصْر (qaṣr), from Latin castrum.
Noun
kasır (definite accusative kasırı, plural kasırlar) (archaic)
- mansion; summer palace
- Synonym: köşk
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قصر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 962
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kasır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قصر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1456
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN