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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تسبیح (tesbih), from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ, “praise, hymn”).
Compare Turkish tespih (“misbaha”), Persian تسبیح (tasbih, “misbaha”).
Noun
tèspih m (Cyrillic spelling тѐспих)
- (Islam) misbaha (prayer beads)
References
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 614
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تسبیح (tesbih), from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ, “praise, hymn”).
Noun
tespih
- (Islam) misbaha (prayer beads)
- rosary