فتیل

See also: فتيل

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَتِيل (fatīl, “fuse, wick”).

Noun

فتیل • (fitil) (plural فتایل)

1. wick, especially a candlewick

   Synonyms: چراغ (çirag), سراج (sirac)

2. seton, silk threads which induce suppuration
3. fuse, a match of some combustible material
4. any loosely twisted cord

Derived terms

• فتیللو (fitilli, “provided with a wick or fuse”)

Descendants

• Turkish: fitil
• → Albanian: fitil
• → Armenian: ֆիթիլ (fitʻil), ֆթիլ (ftʻil)
• → Bulgarian: фити́л m (fitíl)
• → Georgian: ფითილი n (pitili)
• → Greek: φιτίλι n (fitíli), φυτίλι (fytíli)
• → Macedonian: фитил m (fitil)
• → Romanian: fitil n
• → Russian: фити́ль m (fitílʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: фѝтӣљ m / fìtīlj m

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fitil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1601
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فتیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 887
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ellychnium”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 458
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فتیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3469
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fitil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فتیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1366