مولوز
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Greek μόλος (mólos, “heap of stones; breakwater, jetty”), itself from Latin mōlēs (“heap, pile”).
Noun
مولوز • (moloz)
- rubble, fragments of broken stones used also as a building material
Derived terms
- مولوزلق (molozluk, “soil full of rough stones”)
Descendants
- Turkish: moloz
- → Armenian: մոլոզ (moloz)
- → Romanian: moloz
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مولوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1249
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مولوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 5037–5038
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “moloz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مولوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2038