ترکش

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Persian

Etymology 1

From earlier (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from (tir, “arrow”) +‎ (kaš, “container”).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	tarkaš
Dari reading^?	tarkaš
Iranian reading^?	tarkaš
Tajik reading^?	tarkaš

Noun


Iranian Persian	ترکش
Dari	ترکش
Tajik	таркаш

ترکش • (tarkaš) (plural ترکش‌ها (tarkaš-hâ))

quiver
Synonyms: تیردان (tirdân), شگا (šagâ), جعبه (ja'be)

Descendants

→ Arabic: تَرْكَاش (tarkāš)
→ Byzantine Greek: ταρκάσιον (tarkásion)
- → Italian: turcasso, carcasso
- → Old French: carcois, carquais, tarchais, tarquait
  - → French: carquois
    - → Catalan: carcaix
    - → Spanish: carcaj, carcax, carcaza
  - → Galician: carcás, carcán
  - → Portuguese: carcás
→ Georgian: ქარქაში (karkaši)
→ Gujarati: તરકશ (tarkaś)
→ Malay: tarkas
- Indonesian: tarkas
→ Middle Armenian: թարքաշ (tʻarkʻaš)
→ Ottoman Turkish: تركش (terkeş)

Etymology 2

From (tarak-, “to explode”) +‎ (-eš, “-ment, -tion”).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	tarkiš
Dari reading^?	tarkiš
Iranian reading^?	tarkeš
Tajik reading^?	tarkiš

Audio (Iran): (file)

Noun


Iranian Persian	ترکش
Dari	ترکش
Tajik	таркиш

ترکش • (tarkeš) (plural ترکش‌ها (tarkeš-hâ))

explosion
Synonym: انفجار (enfejâr)
shrapnel, fragment (of an artillery shell, bomb, grenade, etc.)
hangāmē ki yak xumpāra ba zamīn isābat mēkunad, sad-hā tarkiš-i buzurg u kōčak-i ān qārč-mānand dar fazā parākanda mēšawad, wa dar xala'ē ki az mawj-i infijār-i ān ījād mēgardad, fōlād nēz hamčūn muqawwāyē narm mučāla mēšawad.
When a mortar hits the ground, hundreds of its large and small fragments are spread around in a mushroom-like shape, and in the vacuum created by its blast wave even steel crumples like a soft cardboard.

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ترکش”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

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