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

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• 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