انبیق

Ottoman Turkish

انبیقلر

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʔinbīq, “alembic”), itself from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “alembic”).

Noun

انبیق • (imbik) (definite accusative انبیغی (imbiği), plural انبیقلر (imbikler))

1. retort, still, alembic, distiller, a flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation

Derived terms

• انبیقدن چكمك (imbikden çekmek, “to distil”)

Descendants

• Turkish: imbik
• → Armenian: իմպիկ (impik)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “imbik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2159
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “انبیق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 68b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انبیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 151
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Alembicus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 47
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انبیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 438
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “imbik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انبیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 208

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix)bor.

Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʔinbīq)bor.

Persian انبیق

Borrowed from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʔinbīq), borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔan.ˈbiːq/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.biːq]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.biːq]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.biːq]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.biq]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæm.biːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔäm.biq]

Readings
Classical reading?	anbīq
Dari reading?	anbīq
Iranian reading?	anbiġ
Tajik reading?	anbiq

Noun

انبیق • (anbīq / anbiġ) (Tajik spelling анбиқ)

1. (alchemy) alembic (an early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation)