اسقندیل

Ottoman Turkish

اسقندیل

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scandaglio (“plummet, plumb line”).

Noun

اسقندیل • (iskandil)

1. plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line

   Synonyms: سونده (sonda), شاقول (şakul), گز (gez), مطمار (mıtmar)

2. (surgery) probe, any of various instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.

   Synonyms: سونده (sonda), میل (mil)

3. (nautical) sounding line, a weighted line used to measure the depth of water

Derived terms

• اسقندیل آتمق (iskandil atmak, “to cast the lead”)
• اسقندیل ایتمك (iskandil etmek, “to sound, probe”)
• اسقندیل صاولوسی (iskandil savlosu, “sounding line”)
• ال اسقندیلی (el iskandili, “hand plummet”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: iskandil

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iskandil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2217
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسقندیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 90
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “iscandil”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 41
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iskandil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقندیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111