Meanings
alternative dated Mersina
- A province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast.
Just before 2 p.m., we entered Neco Tantuni, a one-room restaurant in Enfield that specializes in tantuni (meat fried in cottonseed oil, garnished with tomatoes, parsley, and onion, and rolled up in a dürüm wrap), a street food from Mersin, in southern Turkey.
2023 March 8, Sam Knight, “The Writer Changing How London Thinks About Its Food”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023
Origin
- Ottoman Turkishمرسین“myrtle; Mersin”
- EnglishMersin
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرسین (mersin, “myrtle; Mersin”).
More words from Ottoman Turkish
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Persian مرسین
- مرسین (marsin)city
Polish Mersin
- Mersincity
Russian Мерси́н
- Мерси́н (Mersín)city
Turkish Mersin
- Mersincity
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Cite this entry
Mersin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mersin
“Mersin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mersin. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mersin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mersin.
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