آرشون
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- آرشین (arşın)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾryšn /arašn/, “cubit”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎴𐎡 (a-r-š-n-i /arašni/, “cubit”). Compare Southern Altai арчын (arčïn), Turkmen arçyn, Kalmyk арчм (archm).
Noun
آرشون • (arşun, arşın)
- a linear measure of 0.68 metres, cubit, yard
- Synonyms: (Persian) گز (gez), (Arabic) ذراع (zira)
Descendants
- Turkish: arşın
- → Albanian: arshin
- → Armenian: արշին (aršin), արշըն (aršən), առշուն (aṙšun)
- → Aromanian: aršín
- → Bulgarian: арши́н (aršín)
- → Macedonian: аршин (aršin)
- → Russian: арши́н (aršín)
- → English: arshin
- → Finnish: arsina
- → Mansi: а̄рсын (ārsyn)
- → Polish: arszyn
- → Portuguese: archina
- → Romanian: arșin
- → Spanish: archina
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̀ршӣн
- Latin: àršīn
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “آرشین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 143
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “100. ARŠÍN”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 80