جنبس
Ottoman Turkish
جنبس
Alternative forms
- جنبز (cımbız)
Etymology
From Greek τσιμπίδι (tsimpídi), from the verb τσιμπάω (tsimpáo, “to nip, pinch, sting, prick”).
Noun
جنبس • (cımbıs)
- tweezers, a small instrument used for handling small objects or plucking hairs
- Synonym: ملقط (milkat)
Descendants
- Turkish: cımbız
- → Armenian: ճըմպըզ (čəmpəz)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cımbız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 797
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “جنبس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 447
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “djinbis”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 346
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cımbız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جنبس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 681