ماشاو

Persian

Alternative forms
  • ماشوب (māšūb), ماشیوه (māšēva ~ māšīva), ماشو (māšū)
  • **ماشاد (**mǎšād), **ماشوه (**māšiva, copyist mistake)

Etymology

Suggested from the verb reconstructed in Proto-Balto-Slavic *mezgti (“to twist, to weave, to sew, to entangle etc.”) by Latvian mežģīt, Lithuanian mègzti and Proto-Slavic *mězgyrь (“tarantula”), Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ (“loop, knot; mesh”). See also Old Armenian մաղ (mał, “sieve”).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? māšāw

Noun

ماشاو • (māšāv) (obsolete)

  1. sieve, searce
    Synonyms: غربال (ğarbāl), تنگ‌بیز (tang-bēz), تنک‌بیز (tanuk-bēz), الک (alak)
  2. a kind of cotton or woollen mantle thicker than muslin

Descendants
  • → Chagatai: ماشاب (maşab)

References
  • Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎ (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 123–124 Nr. 359
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1118b–1119a
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “ماشاب”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 800c
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