دمیر یولی
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From دمیر (demir, “iron”) + یول (yol, “way”).
Noun
[edit]- railway, a track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel
- Synonym: شمندوفر (şimendifer)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: demir yolu
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “demir yolu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1145
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “railway”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 447b