قومسال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of قوم (kum, “sand”) +‎ سال (sal, “flat ground”).

Noun

قومسال • (kumsal)

1. arenose, sandy soil
2. sandbank in water

Descendants

• Turkish: kumsal
• → Albanian: kumsallë
• → Armenian: խումսալ (xumsal)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kùmsāl／ку̀мса̄л

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kumsal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2836
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قومسال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قومسال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 3807–3808
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kumsal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قومسال”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1499