pusula

From Ottoman Turkish پوصوله (pusula), from Italian bùssola (“compass”), derived from Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”). Spread in the 14th century after the invention of compasses being boxed.

• IPA^(key): [pusúɫa]

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• Hyphenation: pu‧su‧la

pusula (definite accusative pusulayı, plural pusulalar)

1. compass (navigational compass)
2. note
3. memorandum

• 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, § 133