باروتخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of باروت (barut, “gunpowder”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

باروتخانه • (baruthane)

1. powder mill, a mill where gunpowder is made, from sulphur, saltpetre and charcoal

Descendants

• Turkish: baruthane
• → Albanian: baruthanë
• → Armenian: պարութանա (parutʻana), բարութխանա (barutʻxana)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “baruthane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 473
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باروتخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 237
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mola pulveraria”, 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 1068
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “باروتخانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 648
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باروتخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321