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^[1], 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^[2], Vienna, column 4867
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مكشاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1957