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
Synonym: (bobbin) استاج‎ (istac)
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

Persian

Alternative forms

ماشوره‎ (mâšura) (obsolete)
مشله‎ (mošla) (Dari)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈsuːɾa/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /mɑːˈsuːɾa/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /mɒːˈsuːɾe/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /mɔˈsuɾa/

Noun

ماسوره • (mâsure)

bobbin, reel

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