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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَبِيل (wabīl, “beetle, batlet”).
Noun
وبیل • (vebil)
- kind of heavy stick used in eastern Christian churches to strike the board which is used for a bell
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وبیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5332
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وبیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2128