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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسًى (marsan, “anchorage, harbour”).
Noun
مرسی • (mersa) (plural مراسی (merasi))
- anchorage, harbour, any place where ships can be sheltered
- Synonyms: بندر (bender), لیمان (liman)
Descendants
Adjective
مرسی • (mursa)
- anchored, moored
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mersa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4572
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).
Pronunciation
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mersi
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Interjection
مرسی • (mersi)
- (chiefly Iran, informal) thanks