شكرستان

See also: شکرستان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شكر (şeker, “sugar”) +‎ ـستان (-stan, “suffix forming placenames”).

Noun

شكرستان • (şekeristan)

  1. plantation of sugar cane

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شكرستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2841–2842
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شكرستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1132
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