پلاتین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

پلاتینه (platina)

Etymology

Borrowed from French platine (“platinum”), itself from Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata (“silver”).

Noun

پلاتین • (platin)

platinum, a malleable and highly unreactive metal of silverish-white color

Descendants

Turkish: platin

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “platin2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3871
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاتین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “platin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلاتینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 451

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