مرسی

See also: مرشی‎, مرسي‎, and مرسى‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسًى‎ (marsan, “anchorage, harbour”).

Noun

مرسی • (mersa) (plural مراسی‎)

1. anchorage, harbour, any place where ships can be sheltered

   Synonyms: بندر‎ (bender), لیمان‎ (liman)

Descendants

• Turkish: mersa

Adjective

مرسی • (mursa)

1. anchored, moored

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mersa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4572
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812

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Persian

Etymology

From French merci (“thank you”).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ˈmeɾsiː]

Interjection

مرسی • (mersi)

Dari	تشکر‎
Iranian Persian	مرسی
Tajik	раҳмат (rahmat)

1. (chiefly Iran, informal) thanks