موم مقصی

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Ottoman Turkish

موم مقصی

Etymology

From موم (mum, wax; candle) +‎ مقص (makas, scissors).

Noun

موم مقصی (mum makası)

  1. candle snuffer, a scissors-like device used to extinguish a candle

Descendants

  • Turkish: mum makası

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mum makası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3303
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Emunctorium”, 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 466
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “موم مقصی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5038
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موم مقصی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2037