پوصوله

Ottoman Turkish

پوصوله

Alternative forms

• پوسوله (pusula), پوصولا (pusula), پوسولا (pusula), پوصله (pusla), پوسله (pusla), پوصلا (pusla), پوسلا (pusla)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bùssola (“compass; box”), a derivation from Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”). Spread in the 14th century after the invention of compasses being boxed.

Noun

پوصوله • (pusula) (definite accusative پوصوله‌یی (pusulayı), plural پوصوله‌لر (pusulalar))

1. compass, a magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions

   Synonym: قبله‌نامه (kıblaname)

2. memorandum, slip, chit, a small sheet of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder

   Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)

3. list, inventory, bill, a roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of items

   Synonym: دفتر (defter)

Derived terms

• پوصوله ایتمك (pusula etmek, “to make a memorandum”)
• پوصوله براقمق (pusula bırakmak, “to send or leave a letter”)
• پوصوله‌جی (pusulacı, “maker or seller of compasses”)
• پوصوله‌سز (pusulasız, “without a compass; bewildered”)
• پوصوله‌یی شاشرمق (pusulayı şaşırmak, “to be bewildered”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pusula
• → Armenian: փուսուլա (pʻusula)
• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: پِسوولە (pisûle)

  → Northern Kurdish: pisûle

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mandal1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3910
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پوصوله”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 132b
• 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, pages 127–130
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پوصوله”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pyxis nautica”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1414
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پوصوله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 929
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pusula”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پوصوله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 459
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوصوله”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221