لیمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek λιμένιον (liménion), from Ancient Greek λιμήν (limḗn).

Noun

لیمان • (liman)

1. port, haven, harbor, any place where ships can be sheltered

   Synonyms: بندر (bender), مرسی (mersa)

2. estuary, the place where ocean tides and river water merge

   Synonym: خلیج (halic)

Derived terms

• لیمان رئیسی (liman reisi, “harbor-master”)
• لیمانلق (limanlık, “dead calm”)
• لیمانلمق (limanlamak, “to become calm (of the sea)”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: liman
• → Armenian: լիման (liman)
• → Greek: λιμάνι (limáni)
  • → Romanian: liman
  • → Russian: лиман (liman)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “liman2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2968
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لیمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1086b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Portus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1321
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لیمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4219
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “liman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1650