طمشوار

Ottoman Turkish

Eyalet of Timișoara

Etymology

Ultimately from Hungarian Temesvár, a compound of Temes (“river Timiș”) + vár (“castle”).

Proper noun

طمشوار • (tımışvar)

1. Timișoara (a city, the county seat of Timiș County, Romania)

Descendants

• Turkish: Tamışvar, Temeşvar
• → Armenian: Տմշվար (Tmšvar), Թմշվար (Tʻmšvar)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Temisvarinum”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1654
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طمشوار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1245