موم مقصی
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From موم (mum, “wax; candle”) + مقص (makas, “scissors”).
Noun[edit]
- candle snuffer, a scissors-like device used to extinguish a candle
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: mum makası
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mum makası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3303
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Emunctorium”, 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[1], Vienna, column 466
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موم مقصی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 5038
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موم مقصی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2037