مكیك

Ottoman Turkish

مكیك

Alternative forms

• مكوك (mekuk, mekük)

Etymology

From Persian مکوک (makôk, “weaver's shuttle”).

Noun

مكیك • (mekik)

1. weaver's shuttle, a tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom

Descendants

• Turkish: mekik
• → Albanian: miqik
• → Armenian: մեքիք (mekʻikʻ)
• → Bulgarian: меки́к (mekík)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: mȅćik, mèćik, mèćīk

  Cyrillic script: ме̏ћик, мѐћик, мѐћӣк

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mekik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3118
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مكیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1217
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Radius”, 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 1432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4870
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mekik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1962