سه‌پا

Ottoman Turkish

سه‌پا

Alternative forms

• سهپا (sehpa), سه‌پای (sehpay), سه‌پایه (sehpaye)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سه‌پا (se-pâ, “tripod”), a compound of سه (se, “three”) + پا (pâ, “leg”).

Noun

سه‌پا • (sehpa)

1. tripod, a three-legged stand, mount, or stool
2. gueridon, a small table supported by one or more columns
3. trestle, a horizontal member supported by a pair of divergent legs

Descendants

• Turkish: sehpa

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sehpa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4123
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سهپا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 704
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tripes”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1694
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سه‌پا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2720
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sehpa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سه‌پا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1097