سبله
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic سَبَلَة (sabala, “moustache”); compare Persian سبیل (sebil, “moustache”).
Noun
سبله • (sebele) (plural سبال)
- moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip
- Synonyms: بیق (bıyık), شارب (şarib)
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Mystax”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1114
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سبله”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2543–2544
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سبله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1036