kıskaç
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قیصقاج (ḳıṣḳac, “folding steps”)[1][2] or قیصاج (ḳıṣac, “pincers”),[3][4] from Proto-Turkic *kïsgač,[5][6] from *kïs- (“to squeeze, to pinch”) + *-gač,[7] equivalent to kıs- (“to squeeze”) + -kaç. Cognates with Azerbaijani qısqac, Karakhanid قِسْغاجْ (qısɣač), Karaim кыскач, Kazakh қысқыш (qysqyş), Tatar кыскыч (qıskıç), Turkmen gysgyç, Uyghur قىسقاچ (qisqach), Uzbek qisqich.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kıskaç (definite accusative kıskacı, plural kıskaçlar)
- Any tool used to pinch or squeeze such as pliers, pincers, tongs, clamp etc.
- A pair of folding ladders.
- The claws of some crustaceans used for feeding or defence.
- fire tongs
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصقاج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1508
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصقاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 999
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیصاج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1507
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیصاج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 999
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kısğa:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 667
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıskaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨs-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- “kıskaç”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıskaç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2636