راستق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Persian راسخت (râsoxt, “antimony, stibium”).

Noun

راستق • (rastık)

1. rastik, a preparation of sulphuret of copper blended with other ingredients, used as a cosmetic

Derived terms

• راستق طاشی (rastık taşı, “crude sulphuret of copper”)
• راستق مركب (rastık mürekkeb, “ink that will not wash off the paper”)
• راستق چكمك (rastık çekmek, “to lay rastik on the eyebrows”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: rastık
  • → English: rastik
• → Armenian: ըռաստըխ (əṙastəx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rastık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3940
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “راستق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 243b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راستق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 611
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stibium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1597
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راستق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2257
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rastık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راستق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 956