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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِصَام (ʕiṣām).
Noun
عصام • (ʼısam) (plural اعصمت (aʼsımet))
- strap, thong, a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, or the like
- Synonyms: تاصمه (tasma), سیر (seyr), قایش (kayış)
- kohl, stibnite, collyrium, a dark powder used as an eye makeup
- Synonyms: سرمه (sürme), كحل (köhl)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ısam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2051
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ısâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 472
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عصام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3273
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عصام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1303