بیق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *bïdïk (“moustache”); cognate with Azerbaijani bığ, Karakhanid بِذِقْ (bïδïq), Kazakh миық (miyq), Kyrgyz мыйык (mıyık), Tatar мыек (mıyek), Crimean Tatar mıyıq and Kumyk мыйыкъ (mıyıq).
Noun
[edit]بیق • (bıyık)
- moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip
- whisker, the long and stiff hairs about the mouth in some animals
- (nautical) the yard that carries the spritsail
Derived terms
[edit]- بیقلو (bıyıklı, “moustached”)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 302
- 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[2], Vienna, column 1114
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 999–1000
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bıyık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 423