مکوک
See also: مكوك
Persian
Alternative forms
- مکو (makō), ماکوک (mākūk), ماکو (mākū)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mkwk' /makōg/, “boat”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մակոյկ (makoyk), Aramaic מָקוֹק (māqōq), Classical Syriac ܡܩܘܩ (māqōq) Arabic مَكُّوك (makkūk). The ‘boat’ → ‘weaver's shuttle’ sense development is common to many languages.
Noun
مکوک • (makōk)
- weaver's shuttle
Descendants
- → Armenian: մաքոք (makʿokʿ), մքոք (mkʿokʿ), մքուք (mkʿukʿ)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟܘܟܐ (mākūkā)
- → Georgian: მაქო (mako)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مکیک (mekik)
- Turkish: mekik
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մակոյկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 232–233
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 191
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “مکوک”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul