تونل
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- طونل (tünel)
Etymology
Borrowed from French tunnel, itself from English tunnel.
Noun
تونل • (tünel) (definite accusative تونلی (tüneli), plural تونللر (tüneller))
- tunnel, an underground or underwater passageway for foot or vehicular road traffic
Descendants
- Turkish: tünel
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تونل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 505
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tünel”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4941
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تونل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tünel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تونل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614
Persian
Noun
تونل • (tunel) (plural تونلها)