میشه

See also: مئشه

Ottoman Turkish

میشه

Alternative forms

• مشه (meşe)

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian بیشه (bēša, “forest”), with a change of initial consonant /b/ > /m/ found also in other words, such as مقره (makara, “pulley”), منكشه (menekşe, “violet”), or منتشه (menteşe, “hinge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈʃɛ]

Noun

میشه • (meşe) (definite accusative میشه‌یی (meşeyi), plural میشه‌لر (meşeler))

1. forest, wood, a dense and uncultivated area of trees and undergrowth

   Synonyms: اورمان (orman), بیشه (bişe)

2. oak, any deciduous, hardwood tree in the genus Quercus of the beech family

   Synonym: میشه آغاجی (meşe ağacı)

3. oakwood, the wood of the oak tree, used in making furniture, frames, etc.

Adjective

میشه • (meşe)

1. oaken, made from the wood of the oak tree, also suggesting robustness

Derived terms

• آق میشه (ak meşe, “white oak”)
• قره میشه (kara meşe, “black oak”)
• میشه آغاجی (meşe ağacı, “oak”)
• میشه صندوق (meşe sandık, “oaken coffer”)
• میشه میوه‌سی (meşe meyvesi, “acorn”)
• میشه‌جك (meşecik, “wood germander”)
• میشه‌لك (meşelik, “oak forest”)
• پالاموت میشه‌سی (palamut meşesi, “Turkish oak”)
• یر میشه‌سی (yer meşesi, “germander”)
• یشیل میشه (yeşil meşe, “green oak”)

Descendants

• Turkish: meşe
• → Armenian: մեշե (meše), մեշա (meša)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “میشه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 807
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meşe1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3168
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “میشه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 472b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میشه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1256
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sylva”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1643
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میشه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5074
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meşe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2054