مینه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• مینا (mina)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِينَا (mīnā, “glaze, enamel”), itself from Middle Persian 𐫖𐫏𐫗𐫇𐫃 (mynwg /⁠mēnōg⁠/, “heaven, paradise; *emerald; *glass”).

Noun

مینه • (mine) (definite accusative مینه‌یی (mineyi), plural مینه‌لر (mineler))

1. glaze, the vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain, used for decoration and to ensure the item is impermeable

   Synonyms: پرداخ (perdah), جلا (cila), صیر (sır)

2. enamel, a smooth, durable coating for metal, made by fusing and melting powdered glass to a substrate by firing

   Synonym: صیر (sır)

3. vervain, any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena, common in Europe and believed to have medicinal properties

   Synonyms: بارسطاریون (baristaryon), كوكرجین اوتی (güvercin otu), مینه چیچكی (mine çiçeği)

Derived terms

• آغاج مینه‌سی (ağac minesi, “heliotrope”)
• مینه تخته (mine tahta, “enameled plate of metal”)
• مینه ساعت (mine saʼat, “watch with an enameled case”)
• مینه چیچكی (mine çiçeği, “vervain”)
• مینه‌جی (mineci, “enameler”)
• مینه‌لتمك (mineletmek, “to make or let enamel”)
• مینه‌لمك (minelemek, “to enamel”)
• مینه‌لنمك (minelenmek, “to be enameled”)
• مینه‌لو (mineli, “enameled”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mine
• → Armenian: մինէ (minē), մինա̈ (minä)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “مینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 808
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mine1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3230
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مینا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مینه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1258
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Encaustum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 467
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مینا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5079
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mine”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مینه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2057