تنین
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic تِنِّين (tinnīn, “sea serpent, dragon”).
Noun
[edit]تنین • (tinnin) (plural تنانین)
- fabulous serpent of enormous size, dragon
- (astronomy) Draco, a circumpolar constellation
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: tinnin
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tinnin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4830
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تنین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 408
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Draco”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 432
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تنین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 1443
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 603