مسطر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

Noun

مسطر • (mıstar) (definite accusative مسطری (mıstarı), plural مسطرلر (mıstarlar))

1. ruler, straightedge, any rigid, flat, rectangular device used to draw, cut or check the straightness of straight lines

   Synonym: جدول (cedvel)

Derived terms

• مسطرلامق (mıstarlamak, “to rule with a straightedge”)
• مسطرلو (mıstarlı, “ruled with a straightedge”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mıstar

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مسطر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 759
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mıstar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3206
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mıstar”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 950
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسطر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1166
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Regula”, 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 1453
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مسطر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4649
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسطر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1854