صافره
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- زفره
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek σαβούρα (saboúra). Cognate with Italian zavorra and many other words around the Mediterranean. Doublet of صابوره (sabura), which passed through Arabic.
Noun
صافره • (safra)
- (nautical) ballast
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, § 837, page 561
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “صابوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150.