ردوس

Ottoman Turkish

ردوس

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), from Ancient Greek of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

ردوس • (Rodos)

1. Rhodes (a city and island in the Dodecanese, Greece).

Derived terms

• ردوسلو (rodoslu, “Rhodian”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Rodos

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ردوس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 971
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Rodos”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 643