مفصد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِفْصَد (mifṣad, “lancet, fleam”).

Noun

مفصد • (mifsad)

1. lancet, fleam, a two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection

   Synonym: نیشتر (nişter, neşter)

Descendants

• Turkish: mifsad

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mifsad”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3214
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mifsad”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 770
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مفصد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1203
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مفصد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4811
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مفصد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1932