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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tersane m
- definite plural of ters
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ترسانه (tersane), from Ligurian tersaná, from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Cognate with Italian darsena and Spanish dársena and more distantly with English arsenal. The Turkish borrowing sometimes mutates to tershane under the influence of hane (“house”), which is found as a suffix in many words.
Noun
tersane (definite accusative tersaneyi, plural tersaneler)
- dockyard, especially the Ottoman Imperial Arsenal at Constantinople
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, § 645
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tersane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532