موصل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْمَوْصِل‎ (al-mawṣil). Compare و ص ل‎ (w-ṣ-l) related to linking things together.

Proper noun

موصل • (Mevsıl, vulg. Mosul)

Mosul (a city)

Related terms

موصلی‎ (Mevsılî)

Descendants

Turkish: Musul

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “موصل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2031

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