مرسی

See also: مرشی, مرسي, and مرسى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسًى (marsan, “anchorage, harbour”).

Noun

مرسی • (mersa) (plural مراسی (merasi))

1. anchorage, harbour, any place where ships can be sheltered

   Synonyms: بندر (bender), لیمان (liman)

Descendants

• Turkish: mersa

Adjective

مرسی • (mursa)

1. anchored, moored

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mersa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4572
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [méɹ.siː]

Readings
Iranian reading?	mersi

Interjection

مرسی • (mersi)

Dari	تشکر
Iranian Persian	مرسی
Tajik	раҳмат

1. (chiefly Iran, informal) thanks