تونل

Ottoman Turkish

تونل

Alternative forms

• طونل (tünel)

Etymology

Borrowed from French tunnel, itself from English tunnel.

Noun

تونل • (tünel) (definite accusative تونلی (tüneli), plural تونللر (tüneller))

1. tunnel, an underground or underwater passageway for foot or vehicular road traffic

Descendants

• Turkish: tünel

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تونل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 505
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tünel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4941
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تونل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tünel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تونل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614

Persian

Noun

تونل • (tunel) (plural تونل‌ها (tunel-hâ))

1. tunnel