مساحه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مساحت (mesahat, misahat)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِسَاحَة (misāḥa, “geometry, geodesy”), verbal noun of مَسَحَ (masaḥa, “to survey, peragrate”).

Noun

مساحه • (mesaha, misaha)

1. survey, the operation of finding the contour, dimensions, or position of any part of the Earth's surface

Derived terms

• علم مساحه (ʼilm-i mesaha, “geodesy”)
• مساحه ایتمك (mesaha etmek, “to survey”)
• مساحه شریدی (mesaha şeridi, “measuring tape”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mesaha

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mesaha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3160
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mesâha”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 745
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مساحه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1157
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dimensio”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 394
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مساحه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4605
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mesaha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مساحه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1826