ماسوره
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مَاسُورَة (māsūra).
Noun
ماسوره • (masura, masra)
- a short length of small reed, used in a weaver's shuttle or elsewhere as a bobbin
- a piece of pipe, serving as a spout to a fountain
- 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
- 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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1657