فراشه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فراشة (“moth, butterfly”).

Noun

فراشه • (ferâşe) (plural فراش)

1. moth, a nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera

   Synonyms: پروانه (pervane), گوگه (güğe, güve)

2. splinter of bone
3. pin or catch for a bolt

Descendants

• Turkish: feraşe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “feraşe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1562
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pyrallis”, 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^[1], Vienna, column 1413
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فراشه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3484
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فراشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1371