مطره

Ottoman Turkish

مطره

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَطَرَة (maṭara, “waterskin”).

Noun

مطره • (matara)

1. waterskin, a container for water normally made of tanned skin

   Synonyms: آبكش (abkeş), طولوم (tulum), قربه (kırba)

2. matrass, a type of bolthead flask used in chemical distillation

Derived terms

• مطره‌جی (mataracı, “man designated to carry a waterskin”)

Descendants

• Turkish: matara
• → Armenian: մաթարայ (matʻaray)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “matara1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3078
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “matara”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 699
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مطره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1184
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lagena coriacea”, 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 909
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مطره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 4729-4730
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “matara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مطره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1890