قوم ساعتی

Ottoman Turkish

قوم ساعتی

Etymology

From قوم (kum, “sand”) + ساعت (saʾat, “hour; clock, watch”).

Noun

قوم ساعتی • (kum saʾatı)

1. hourglass, a clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows

Descendants

• Turkish: kum saatı

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kum saatı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوم ساعتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clepsydra”, 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 191
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوم ساعتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2517
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوم ساعتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1496