مولوز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Greek μόλος (mólos, “heap of stones; breakwater, jetty”), itself from Latin mōlēs (“heap, pile”).

Noun

مولوز • (moloz)

1. rubble, fragments of broken stones used also as a building material

Derived terms

• مولوزلق (molozluk, “soil full of rough stones”)

Descendants

• Turkish: moloz
• → Armenian: մոլոզ (moloz)
• → Romanian: moloz

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مولوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1249
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مولوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 5037–5038
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “moloz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مولوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2038