مكنسه

See also: مكنسة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِكْنَسَة (miknasa, “broom”).

Noun

مكنسه • (miknese) (definite accusative مكنسه‌یی (mikneseyi), plural مكانس (mekânis))

1. broom, besom, a domestic utensil used for sweeping

   Synonyms: جاروب (carub), سوپوركه (süpürge)

Descendants

• Turkish: miknese

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “miknese”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3218
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “miknese”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 773
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scopæ”, 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 1520
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكنسة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4869
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكنسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1959