Etymology

Samsun

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Today it means: A province and metropolitan municipality in northern Turkey, on the Black Sea coast. Full definition →

Turkish Samsun ← Ottoman Turkish صامسون
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The story

  1. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromصامسون
  2. Turkish · borrowed fromSamsun
  3. English todaySamsun

From Turkish Samsun, from Ottoman Turkish صامسون (Samsun).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.