طمشوار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Ultimately from Hungarian Temesvár, a compound of Temes (“river Timiș”) + vár (“castle”).

Proper noun

طمشوار • (tımışvar)

  1. Timișoara (a city, the county seat of Timiș County, Romania)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Tamışvar, Temeşvar
  • → Armenian: Տմշվար (Tmšvar), Թմշվար (Tʻmšvar)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Temisvarinum”, 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[1], Vienna, column 1654
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طمشوار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1245
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