پوصوله

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پوسوله (pusula), پوصولا (pusula), پوسولا (pusula), پوصله (pusla), پوسله (pusla), پوصلا (pusla), پوسلا (pusla)

Etymology

From Italian bùssola (“compass; box”), derived from Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”). Spread in the 14th century after the invention of compasses being boxed.

Noun

پوصوله • (pusula)

1. compass
2. note, cheatsheet, slip, bill, memorandum, chit

Derived terms

• پوصوله‌یی شاشرمق (pusulayı şaşırmak, “perdere la bussola, to be bewildered”)
• پوصوله‌جی (pusulacı, “maker or seller of compasses”)
• پوصوله‌سز (pusulasız, “without a compass; bewildered”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pusula
• → Armenian: փուսուլա (pʻusula)
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پِسوولە (pisûle)

References

• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 127–130
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پوصوله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 929
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866) “پوصوله”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221