tersane

== Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === tersane m definite plural of ters == Turkish == === Etymology === From Ottoman Turkish ترسانه (tersane), from Ligurian tersaná, from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, “industry house”). Cognate with Italian darsena and Spanish dársena and more distantly with English arsenal. The Turkish borrowing sometimes mutates to tershane under the influence of hane (“house”), which is found as a suffix in many words. === Noun === tersane (definite accusative tersaneyi, plural tersaneler) dockyard, especially the Ottoman Imperial Arsenal at Constantinople === 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, § 645 Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tersane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ترسانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 532