اوقتانت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

اوقطانت (oktant)

Etymology

Borrowed from French octant, itself from Latin ōctans (“octant”).

Noun

اوقتانت • (oktant)

octant, a navigational instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation

Descendants

Turkish: oktant

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “oktant”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3600
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوقتانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 194
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوقطانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 260

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