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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سِكِّين (sikkīn, “knife”).
Noun
سكین • (sikkin) (plural سكاكین (sekakin))
- knife, a tool designed for cutting, especially a table knife
- Synonyms: بیچاق (bıçak), كارد (kard)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sikkin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4235
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سكین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 272a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 687
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Culter”, 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 308
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سكین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2646
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1069