دیش فرچهسی
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Ottoman Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From دیش (diş, “tooth”) + فرچه (fırça, “brush”).
Noun
[edit]- toothbrush, a brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: diş fırçası
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دیش فرچهسی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 891
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “toothbrush”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 599b
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “diş fırçası”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1243