مکوک
See also: مكوك
Persian
Alternative forms
- مکو (makô), ماکوک (mâkuk), ماکو (mâku)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mkwk' /makōg/, “boat”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian մակոյկ (makoyk), Aramaic מָקוֹק (māqōq), Classical Syriac ܡܩܘܩ (māqōq) Arabic مَكُّوك (makkūk). The ‘boat’ → ‘weaver's shuttle’ sense development is common to many languages.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ma.ˈkoːk]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mä.kʰóːk]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mä.kʰóːk]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mä.kʰʊ́ːk]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [mæ.kʰúːkʲ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [mä.kʰɵ́k]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | makōk |
| Dari reading? | makōk |
| Iranian reading? | makuk |
| Tajik reading? | makük |
Descendants
- → Armenian: մաքոք (makʻokʻ), մքոք (mkʻokʻ), մքուք (mkʻukʻ)
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟܘܟܐ (mākūkā)
- → Georgian: მაქო (mako)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مكیك (mekik), مكوك (mekuk, mekük)
- Turkish: mekik
- → Albanian: miqik
- → Armenian: մեքիք (mekʻikʻ)
- → Bulgarian: меки́к (mekík)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin script: mȅćik, mèćik, mèćīk
- Cyrillic script: ме̏ћик, мѐћик, мѐћӣк
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մակոյկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 232–233
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 191
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مکوک”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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