آرشون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• آرشین (arşın)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾryšn /⁠arašn⁠/, “cubit”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎴𐎡 (a-r-š-n-i /⁠arašni⁠/, “cubit”). Compare Southern Altai арчын (arčïn), Turkmen arçyn, Kalmyk арчм (arçm).

Noun

آرشون • (arşun, arşın)

1. a linear measure of 0.68 metres, cubit, yard

   Synonyms: (Persian) گز (gez), (Arabic) ذراع (zira)

Descendants

• Turkish: arşın
• → Albanian: arshin
• → Armenian: արշին (aršin), արշըն (aršən), առշուն (aṙšun) — dialectal
• → Aromanian: aršín
• → Bulgarian: арши́н (aršín)
• → Macedonian: аршин (aršin)
• → Russian: арши́н (aršín)
  • → English: arshin
  • → Finnish: arsina
  • → Northern Mansi: а̄рсын (ārsyn)
  • → Polish: arszyn
  • → Portuguese: archina
  • → Romanian: arșin
  • → Spanish: archina
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀ршӣн

  Latin script: àršīn

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرشین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 143
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “100. ARŠÍN”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 80