سكین

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِكِّين (sikkīn, “knife”).

Noun

سكین • (sikkin) (plural سكاكین (sekakin))

1. knife, a tool designed for cutting, especially a table knife

   Synonyms: بیچاق (bıçak), كارد (kard)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sikkin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4235
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سكین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 272a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culter”, 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 308
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2646
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1069