مینه
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- مینا (mina)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مِينَا (mīnā, “glaze, enamel”), itself from Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫗𐫇𐫃 (mynwg /mēnōg/, “heaven, paradise; *emerald; *glass”).
Noun
[edit]مینه • (mine) (definite accusative مینهیی (mineyi), plural مینهلر (mineler))
- glaze, the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain, used for decoration and to ensure the item is impermeable
- enamel, a smooth, durable coating for metal, made by fusing and melting powdered glass to a substrate by firing
- Synonym: صیر (sır)
- vervain, any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena, common in Europe and believed to have medicinal properties
- Synonyms: بارسطاریون (baristaryon), كوكرجین اوتی (güvercin otu), مینه چیچكی (mine çiçeği)
Derived terms
[edit]- آغاج مینهسی (ağac minesi, “heliotrope”)
- مینه تخته (mine tahta, “enameled plate of metal”)
- مینه ساعت (mine saʼat, “watch with an enameled case”)
- مینه چیچكی (mine çiçeği, “vervain”)
- مینهجی (mineci, “enameler”)
- مینهلتمك (mineletmek, “to make or let enamel”)
- مینهلمك (minelemek, “to enamel”)
- مینهلنمك (minelenmek, “to be enameled”)
- مینهلو (mineli, “enameled”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 808
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mine1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3230
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مینا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1258
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Encaustum”, 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 467
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مینا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5079
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mine”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057