շամանտուրա

Armenian

Alternative forms

• շամանտուռա (šamantuṙa)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شماندوره (şamandura), شماندره (şamandra, şamandara, şamandıra).

Noun

շամանտուրա • (šamantura)

1. (Istanbul) buoy, barrel swimming in the water fixed to an anchor so ships can be moored to it

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “շամանտուրա”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 126
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “շամանտուռա”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 258