اسطال

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اصطل (astal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian asztal (“table, desk”).

Noun

اسطال • (astal)

1. table, especially a dining table, on which meals are served

   Synonyms: طراپزه (tırapeza), ماسه (masa)

Descendants

• Turkish: astal

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “astal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mensa”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1034