پراچول

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• پاراچول (paraçol)
• փարաչօլ (paraçol) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bracciolo.

Noun

پراچول • (paraçol or pıraçol) (definite accusative پراچولی (paraçolü), plural پراچوللر (paraçoller))

1. (nautical, shipbuilding) knee, a piece of timber formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent

Derived terms

• عقرب پراچولی (ʼakreb paraçolü, “sternpost”)
• پراچول ارابه‌سی (paraçol arabası, “coach suspended from projecting arms”)
• یاترمه پراچول (yatırma paraçol, “knee of timber placed orizontally”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: paraçol

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پراچول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 390
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paraçol”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3772b
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 121
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاراچول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 310b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پراچول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 439b
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “پراچول”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 350b