صافره

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

زفره

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek σαβούρα (saboúra). Cognate with Italian zavorra and many other words around the Mediterranean. Doublet of صابوره (sabura), which passed through Arabic.

Noun

صافره • (safra)

(nautical) ballast

Descendants

Turkish: safra

References

Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 837, page 561
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صابوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150.

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