ماسوره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَاسُورَة (māsūra).

Noun

ماسوره • (masura, masra)

1. a short length of small reed, used in a weaver's shuttle or elsewhere as a bobbin

   Synonym: (bobbin) استاج (istac)

2. a piece of pipe, serving as a spout to a fountain
3. name of a certain measure used in the distribution of water from an aqueduct, also, the quantity of water it furnishes; equal to four chewaldiz, and to one fourth of a lule
4. any duct, passage, canal in the body

Descendants

• Turkish: masura, masıra, masra, masır
• → Albanian: masur
• → Aromanian: mãsur
• → Bulgarian: масу́р (masúr)
• → Georgian: მასრა (masra)
• →⇒ Greek: μασούρι (masoúri)
• → Middle Armenian: մասուրայ (masuray)
  • Armenian: մասուրա (masura), մասրա (masra)
• → Pontic Greek: μασούρα (masoúra), μασούριν (masoúrin), μασούρι (masoúri), μασούρ' (masoúr')
• → Romanian: mosor
• → Serbo-Croatian: mòsūr / мо̀сӯр

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماسوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1657

Persian

Alternative forms

• ماشوره (mâšura) (obsolete)
• مشله (mošla) (Dari)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈsuː.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.súː.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.sú.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.súː.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.sú.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	māsūra
Dari reading?	māsūra
Iranian reading?	mâsure
Tajik reading?	mosura

Noun

ماسوره • (mâsure)

1. bobbin, reel