مکوک

See also: مكوك

Persian

Alternative forms

• مکو (makô), ماکوک (mâkuk), ماکو (mâku)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mkwk' /⁠makōg⁠/, “boat”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մակոյկ (makoyk), Aramaic מָקוֹק (māqōq), Classical Syriac ܡܩܘܩ (māqōq) Arabic مَكُّوك (makkūk). The ‘boat’ → ‘weaver's shuttle’ sense development is common to many languages.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.ˈkoːk]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.kʰóːk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.kʰóːk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.kʰóːk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.kʰʊ́ːk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.kʰúːkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.kʰɵ́k]

Readings
Classical reading?	makōk
Dari reading?	makōk
Iranian reading?	makuk
Tajik reading?	makük

Noun

مکوک • (makôk)

1. weaver's shuttle

Descendants

• → Armenian: մաքոք (makʻokʻ), մքոք (mkʻokʻ), մքուք (mkʻukʻ) — dialectal
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟܘܟܐ (mākūkā)
• → Georgian: მაქო (mako)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مكیك (mekik), مكوك (mekuk, mekük)
  • Turkish: mekik
  • → Albanian: miqik
  • → Armenian: մեքիք (mekʻikʻ)
  • → Bulgarian: меки́к (mekík)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: mȅćik, mèćik, mèćīk

    Cyrillic script: ме̏ћик, мѐћик, мѐћӣк

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մակոյկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 232–233
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 191
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مکوک”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul