لیمان رئیسی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لیمان (liman, “port”) +‎ رئیس (reis, “leader, captain”).

Noun

لیمان رئیسی • (liman reisi)

harbormaster, an official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port

Descendants

Turkish: liman reisi

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “liman reisi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2968
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لیمان رئیسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1086
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیمان رئیسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1650

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