پسك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *pïšïk (“cat”); cognate with Azerbaijani pişik, Karakalpak pıshıq, Kazakh мысық (mysyq), Kyrgyz мышык (mışık), Turkmen pişik, Uyghur مۈشۈك (müshük) and Uzbek mushuk.

Noun

پسك • (pisik)

1. cat, a common house pet (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: قط (kitt), كدی (kedi), گربه (gürbe), هر (hirr)

Derived terms

• ابه پسكی (ebe pisiği, “awny ear of some grasses”)
• پسك اوتی (pisik otu, “catnip”)

Descendants

• Turkish: pisik
• → Armenian: փիսիկ (pʻisik)
• → Cappadocian Greek: πισίκα (pisíka)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pisik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3862
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پسك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پسك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1191