ماشه

Ottoman Turkish

ماشه

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ماشه (mâše).

Proper noun

ماشه • (maşa)

1. tongs, a tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them
2. anchor-shaped and double-headed detent in a watch

Derived terms

• ماشه‌جی (maşaci, “maker or seller of tongs”)
• ماشه‌لو (maşali, “furnished with tongs”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: maşa
• → Albanian: mashë
• → Armenian: մաշա (maša)
• → Macedonian: маша (maša)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “maşa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3075
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ماشه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1092
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Forceps”, 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 600
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ماشه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4239
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maşa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ماشه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1657

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈʃa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ʃǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ʃǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ʃǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.ʃǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.ʃé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.ʃǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	māša
Iranian reading?	mâše
Tajik reading?	moša

Noun

ماشه • (mâše)

1. pliers
2. trigger