آرشون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/arašn/, cubit), from Old Persian [Term?] (/arašn-/, cubit). Compare Turkmen arçyn, Kalmyk арчм (arçm).

Noun

آرشون (arşun, arşın)

  1. a linear measure of 0.68 metres, cubit, yard
    Synonyms: گز (gez) (Persian), ذراع (zira) (Arabic)

Descendants

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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 80
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