مرسی

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْسًى (marsan, “anchorage, harbour”).

• մէրսա (mersa) — Armeno-Turkish

مرسی • (mersa) (plural مراسی (merasi))

1. anchorage, harbour, any place where ships can be sheltered

   Synonyms: بندر (bender), لیمان (liman)

• Turkish: mersa

مرسی • (mursa)

1. anchored, moored

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mersa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3157
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مرسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1149
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مرسی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4572
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مرسی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812

Borrowed from French merci.

• մէրսի (mersi) — Armeno-Turkish

مرسی • (mersi)

1. (informal) thanks
   • 1851, Vartan Pasha, chapter 13, in Ագապի Հիքեայէսի [Akabi Hikâyesi, Akabi's Story], Constantinople: Yovhannēs Miwhēntisean Press, page 342:

     — Նի՞չուն մատմամզէլ, ճէնապինիզէ սիկարա եա՞բմատըմ տէյու, պունու սէօյլէյօրսունըզ։
     — Խայըր, նէ՞ մինասիպէթ, պաշկալարընա եաբտընըզ եա՛ պանա եաբմասանըզ տա օլուր։
     — Անղլատըմ մատմամզէլ, էօյլէ իսէ պիր սիկարա եաբայըմ տէ ճէնապին իլէ պարըշալըմ։
     — Մէրսի միւսիւ։
     — Մէրսի վո՞ւի մը, մէրսի նօ մը։
     — Մէրսի նօ։ (Armeno-Turkish)

     — Ni^?çun madmamzel, cenabinize sigara ya^?pmadım deyu, bunu söyleyorsunız.
     — Hayır, ne^? minasibet, başgalarına yapdınız yá bana yapmasanız da olur.
     — Anğladım madmamzel, öyle ise bir sigara yapayım de cenabin ile barışalım.
     — Mersi müsü.
     — Mersi vu^?i mı, mersi no mı.
     — Mersi no.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

The word was uncommon enough in 1851 to force Vartan Paşa explain its meaning in a footnote.

• Turkish: mersi

• Vartan Paşa (1991), A. Tietze, editor, Aḳabi Hikayesi: İlk Türkçe Roman (1851)‎^[4] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Eren, pages 111, 151b
• Tietze, Andreas (2021), “mersi”, in Emine Yılmaz and Nurettin Demir, editors, Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Ankara: Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, page 112

Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).

مرسی • (mersi)

1. (chiefly Iran, informal) thanks

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)