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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دشنه (dašna, “dagger, poniard”), from Middle Persian (dšnk' /dašnag/, “right hand; dagger”).
Noun
دشنه • (deşne) (definite accusative دشنهیی (deşneyi), plural دشنهلر (deşneler))
- dagger, poniard, a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade
- Synonym: خنجر (hancar, hancer)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deşne”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1183
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “deşne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 213
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugio”, 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 1401
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دشنه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2086
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دشنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 904
Persian
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian (dšnk' /dašnag/, “right hand; dagger”), from (dšn' /dašn/, “right hand”) + (-k' /-ag/). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian դաշնակ (dašnak), դաշոյն (dašoyn), Classical Syriac ܕܫܢܓ (dašnag, “two-edged dagger”), Arabic دشنج (dašnaj, “dagger”), Georgian დაშნა (dašna, “sword”).
Noun
دشنه • (dešne, dašne)
- dagger, poniard
- sword, scimitar
- narrow knife-blade
References
Etymology 2
Noun
دشنه • (došna)
- (Neyshaburi) last night