آرشون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾryšn /⁠arašn⁠/, cubit), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎴𐎡 (a-r-š-n-i /⁠arašni⁠/, cubit). Compare Southern Altai арчын (arčïn), Turkmen arçyn, Kalmyk арчм (arçm).

Noun

آرشون • (arşun, arşın)

  1. a linear measure of 0.68 metres, cubit, yard
    Synonyms: (Persian) گز (gez), (Arabic) ذراع (zira)

Descendants

  • Turkish: arşın
  • Albanian: arshin
  • Armenian: արշին (aršin), արշըն (aršən), առշուն (aṙšun)dialectal
  • Aromanian: aršín
  • Bulgarian: арши́н (aršín)
  • Macedonian: аршин (aršin)
  • Russian: арши́н (aršín)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: а̀ршӣн
    Latin script: àršīn

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آرشین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 143
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “100. ARŠÍN”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 80