لاطه
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from either French latte (“lath, slat”) or Italian latta (“tin, can”), both ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *lattō (“board, plank”).
Noun
لاطه • (lata) (definite accusative لاطهیی (latayı), plural لاطهلر (latalar))
- lath, slat, a thin and narrow strip of wood fastened to the rafters, studs or beams of a building to support the tiles or shingles
Derived terms
- دمیر لاطهسی (demir latası, “sheet metal”)
Descendants
- Turkish: lata
- → Armenian: լաթա (latʻa)
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “لاطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 695
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lata1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2942
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لاطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1072
- Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 44
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “lath”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 301a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lata”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لاطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1619