شكرستان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شكر‎ (şeker, “sugar”) +‎ ـستان‎ (-stan, “suffix forming placenames”).

Noun

شكرستان • (şekeristan)

plantation of sugar cane

Further reading

Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “شكرستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2841–2842
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شكرستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132

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