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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bïdïk (“moustache”); cognate with Azerbaijani bığ, Karakhanid بِذِقْ (bïδïq), Kazakh миық (miyq), Kyrgyz мыйык (mıyık), Tatar мыек (mıyek), Crimean Tatar mıyıq and Kumyk мыйыкъ (mıyıq).
Noun
بیق • (bıyık)
- moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip
- Synonyms: سبله (sebele), شارب (şarib)
- whisker, the long and stiff hairs about the mouth in some animals
- (nautical) the yard that carries the spritsail
Derived terms
- بیقلو (bıyıklı, “moustached”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 302
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mystax”, 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, Vienna, column 1114
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 999–1000
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bıyık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 423