مكیك
Ottoman Turkish
مكیك
Alternative forms
- مكوك (mekuk, mekük)
Etymology
From Persian مکوک (makōk, “weaver's shuttle”).
Noun
مكیك • (mekik)
- weaver's shuttle, a tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom
Descendants
- Turkish: mekik
- → Albanian: miqik
- → Armenian: մեքիք (mekʿikʿ)
- → Bulgarian: меки́к (mekík)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: mȅćik, mèćik, mèćīk
- Cyrillic: ме̏ћик, мѐћик, мѐћӣк
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mekik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3118
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مكیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1217
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Radius”, 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 1432
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مكوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4870
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mekik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مكیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1962