mersin

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6

Definition of mersin

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. 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.”
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  1. 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.”
  2. A city, the capital of Mersin Province, Turkey.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرسین (mersin, “myrtle; Mersin”).

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