صافره

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زفره

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σαβούρα (saboúra). Cognate with Italian zavorra and many other words around the Mediterranean. Doublet of صابوره (sabura), which passed through Arabic.

Noun

صافره • (safra)

1. (nautical) ballast

Descendants

• Turkish: safra

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, § 837, page 561
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150.