پوصوله

• پوسوله‎ (pusula), پوصولا‎ (pusula), پوسولا‎ (pusula), پوصله‎ (pusla), پوسله‎ (pusla), پوصلا‎ (pusla), پوسلا‎ (pusla)

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

پوصوله • (pusula)

1. compass
2. note, cheatsheet, slip, bill, memorandum, chit

• پوصوله‌یی شاشرمق‎ (pusulayı şaşırmak, “perdere la bussola, to be bewildered”)
• پوصوله‌جی‎ (pusulacı, “maker or seller of compasses”)
• پوصوله‌سز‎ (pusulasız, “without a compass; bewildered”)

• Turkish: pusula
• → Armenian: փուսուլա (pʿusula)
• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: پِسوولە‎ (pisûle)

  → Northern Kurdish: pisûle

• 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, pages 127–130
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “پوصوله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 929
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1866), “پوصوله”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 221