طوپخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

طوپ (top, “cannon”) +‎ خانه (hane, “house”).

Noun

طوپخانه • (tophane)

  1. cannon-manufacture, gun factory, military foundry
  2. arsenal, the headquarters of the artillery

Descendants

  • Turkish: tophane
  • → Arabic: طُوبْخَانَة (ṭūbḵāna)
  • → Armenian: թոփխանե (tʻopʻxane), թոփխանա (tʻopʻxana)
  • → Azerbaijani: топхана ?
  • → Bulgarian: топхана (tophana)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (“ammunition”)
    Cyrillic script: топха̀на
    Latin script: tophàna

Proper noun

طوپخانه • (tophane)

  1. Tophane (a neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey), named after the nearby factories.

References

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