بوصلة

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Italian bùssola (compass; box), derived from Latin buxis (box), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, box). Spread in the 14th century after the invention of compasses being boxed.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buː.sˤu.la/
  • IPA(key): /buː.sˤi.la/
  • (Arabicized) IPA(key): /baw.sˤa.la/
  • (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan) IPA(key): /buːsˤ.la/
  • (Sudan, sometimes Egypt and Morocco) IPA(key): /bosˤ.la/
  • (Syria, Lebanon) IPA(key): /buːsˤ.leː/

Noun

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بُوصُلَة or بُوصِلَة or بَوْصَلَة (būṣula or būṣila or bawṣalaf (plural بُوصُلَات (būṣulāt) or بُوصِلَات (būṣilāt) or بَوْصَلَات (bawṣalāt))

  1. compass

Declension

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References

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  • بوصلة” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بوصلة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 128
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 127–130
  • Spiro, Socrates (1895) “بوصلة”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 63
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بوصلة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 123