پورسلن
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- پورسلان (porselan, porslan)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French porcelaine (“porcelain”), itself from Italian porcellana.
Noun
[edit]پورسلن • (porselen or porslen) (definite accusative پورسلنی (porseleni, porsleni), plural پورسلنلر (porselenler, porslenler))
- insulator, a non-conductive structure, coating or device that does not transmit sound, heat or electricity, usually made of ceramic or porcelain
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: porselen
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “پورسلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 414
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “porselen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3881
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پورسلان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 326
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “porselen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پورسلن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 457