اسقندیل
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian scandaglio (“plummet, plumb line”).
Noun[edit]
اسقندیل • (iskandil)
- plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line
- (surgery) probe, any of various instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (nautical) sounding line, a weighted line used to measure the depth of water
Derived terms[edit]
- اسقندیل آتمق (iskandil atmak, “to cast the lead”)
- اسقندیل ایتمك (iskandil etmek, “to sound, probe”)
- اسقندیل صاولوسی (iskandil savlosu, “sounding line”)
- ال اسقندیلی (el iskandili, “hand plummet”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: iskandil
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iskandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2217
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “iscandil”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 41
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iskandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111