قلمتراش

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Ottoman Turkish

قلمتراش

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قلمتراش (qalam-tarâš), ultimately from قلم (kalem, “reed; reed pen”).

Noun

قلمتراش • (kalemtıraş)

  1. penknife, a small knife for cutting the points of reed pens
    Synonym: گزلك (gizlik)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: kalemtıraş

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalemtıraş”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2354
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قلمتراش”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 969
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scalpellum”, 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 1515
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قلمتراش”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3752
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قلمتراش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1470

Persian

Etymology

From قلم (qalam) +‎ تراش (tarâš).

Noun

قلمتراش • (qalam-tarâš)

  1. penknife

Descendants

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