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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic فَتِيل (fatīl, “fuse, wick”).
Noun
فتیل • (fitil) (plural فتایل)
- wick, especially a candlewick
- Synonyms: چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac)
- seton, silk threads which induce suppuration
- fuse, a match of some combustible material
- any loosely twisted cord
Derived terms
- فتیللو (fitilli, “provided with a wick or fuse”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fitil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1601
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فتیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 887
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ellychnium”, 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 458
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فتیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3469
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fitil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فتیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1366