ترسانه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ترسخانه (tershane)

Etymology

From Ligurian tersaná, from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”), with the ending influenced by the common suffix خانه (hane). See Turkish tersane for cognates.

Noun

ترسانه • (tersane) (plural ترسانه‌لر)

1. arsenal
2. dockyard, especially the Imperial Arsenal
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 627:

     جبراً و حیله ایله عزیز وطنك ، بوتون قلعه‌لری ضبط ایدلمش ، بوتون ترسانه‌لرینه كیرلمش ، بوتون اردولری داغیتلمش و مملكتك هر كوشه‌سی بالفعل اشغال ایدلمش اوله‌بیلیر.

     Cebren ve hile ile aziz vatanın bütün kaleleri zapt edilmiş, bütün tersanelerine girilmiş, bütün orduları dağıtılmış ve memleketin her köşesi bilfiil işgal edilmiş olabilir.

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Descendants

• Turkish: tersane
• → Arabic: تِرْسَانَة (tirsāna), تَرْسَانَة (tarsāna)
• → Armenian: թէրսանէ (tʻērsanē)
• → Greek: ταρσανάς (tarsanás)
• → Romanian: tersaná

References

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ترسخانه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 152
• 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, § 645
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tersane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532