سلسله‌نامه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سلسله‌نامه (selselenâme, “pedigree”), a compound of سلسله (selsele, “chain”) + نامه (nâme, “book, record, message”).

Noun

سلسله‌نامه • (silsilename)

1. pedigree, a book, chart, list, or record of ancestors

Descendants

• Turkish: silsilename

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ruzname”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4243
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “silsilenâme”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1142
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سلسله‌نامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 689
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سلسله‌نامه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1072