باستون

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

باسطون (baston)

Etymology

From Venetian bastón (Italian bastone).

Noun

باستون • (baston)

walking stick
(nautical) boom

Descendants

Turkish: baston
→ Armenian: պաստօն (pastōn)

References

Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 85, page 102
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باسطون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 323

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