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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِيزَاب (mīzāb), variant of مِرْزَاب (mirzāb, “gutter, downspout”).
Noun
میزاب • (mizab) (plural میازب (meyazib))
- gutter, downspout, a spout by which rain runs from a roof
- Synonym: اولق (oluk)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mizab”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3245
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میزاب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1256
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Colliquiae”, 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 202
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میزاب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5071
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میزاب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2055