اوستره
Ottoman Turkish
اوستره
Alternative forms
- اوستوره (ustura)
Etymology
From Persian استره (ostore, “razor”).
Noun
اوستره • (ustura)
- razor, a keen-edged knife used in shaving the hair
Descendants
- Turkish: ustura
- → Armenian: ուսթուրա (ustʿura)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “ustura”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4999
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوستره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 189
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Novacula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1151
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “اوستره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 516
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ustura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اوستره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 253