قوم ساعتی

Ottoman Turkish

قوم ساعتی

Etymology

From قوم (kum, sand) + ساعت (saʾat, hour; clock, watch).

Noun

قوم ساعتی • (kum saʾatı)

  1. hourglass, a clock made of two glass vessels connected by a narrow passage through which sand flows

Descendants

  • Turkish: kum saatı

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kum saatı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوم ساعتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clepsydra”, 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, Vienna, column 191
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوم ساعتی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2517
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوم ساعتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1496
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