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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مكشاح.
Noun
مكشاح • (mikşah)
- axe, hatchet, a tool for felling trees or chopping wood
- Synonyms: بالطه (balta), تبر (teber), فاس (fas)
- the cutting part of the edge of a sword or knife
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securis”, 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 1530
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكشاح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4867
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكشاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1957