مكشاح
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]مكشاح • (mikşah)
- axe, hatchet, a tool for felling trees or chopping wood
- the cutting part of the edge of a sword or knife
Further reading
[edit]- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securis”, 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 1530
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكشاح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 4867
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكشاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1957