مكشاح

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مكشاح.

Noun

مكشاح • (mikşah)

  1. axe, hatchet, a tool for felling trees or chopping wood
    Synonyms: بالطه (balta), تبر (teber), فاس (fas)
  2. the cutting part of the edge of a sword or knife

Further reading
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securis”, 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 1530
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مكشاح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4867
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكشاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1957
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