صوساق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- سوسق (susak), صوصق (susak)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *susgak (“scoop, ladle”), from *sus- (“to scoop”); cognate with Turkmen susmak, but compare Khakas сусху (susxu), Kyrgyz сузгу (suzğu), Southern Altai суску (susku) and Tatar соскы (soskı).
Noun
صوساق • (susak)
- wooden ladle or scoop with a handle
- Synonym: چمچه (çemçe)
- pail, a wooden vessel for carrying milk
- Synonym: قوغه (koğa)
Descendants
- Turkish: susak
- → Armenian: սուսախ (susax)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “susak2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4361
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cochlear”, 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 194
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صوساق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2711
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “susak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صوساق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191