فاچته

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • فاسته‎ (faseta)

Etymology

From Italian faccetta (“facet”).

Noun

فاچته • (façeta)

  1. facet, any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem

Descendants
  • Turkish: façeta

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فاچته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 881
  • Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “فاچته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1358
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