تسبیح

Ottoman Turkish

تسبیح

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ, “praise”).

Noun

تسبیح • (tesbih) (plural تسبیحات (tesbihat))

1. (Islam) tasbih, a litany of praise to God that involves the repetitive utterances of short sentences
2. (by extension) misbaha, a set of Islamic prayer beads used by Muslims in reciting the tasbih

Derived terms

• تسبیح آغاجی (tesbih ağacı, “bead tree”)
• تسبیح بوجكی (tesbih böceği, “woodlouse”)
• تسبیح چكمك (tesbih çekmek, “to tell beads”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tespih
• → Albanian: tespihe
• → Armenian: թզբեխ (tʻzbex)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тѐспих

  Latin script: tèspih

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tespih”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4769
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “tesbîh”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1308
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تسبیح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Laudatio”, 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 925
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “تسبیح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1174
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tespih”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تسبیح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 545

Persian

تسبیح

Alternative forms

• تزبی (tazbē) (dialectal, Kabuli)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَسْبِيح (tasbīḥ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /tas.ˈbeːh/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.béːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.béːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäz.béː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.béː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæs.bíːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäs.béʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	tasbēh
Dari reading?	tasbēh
Iranian reading?	tasbih
Tajik reading?	tasbeh

Noun

تسبیح • (tasbēh / tasbih) (plural تسبیح‌ها (tasbēh-hā / tasbih-hâ), Tajik spelling тасбеҳ)

1. prayer beads, rosary

Descendants

• → Armenian: թազբեհ (tʻazbeh)
• → Bashkir: тиҫбе (tiśbe)
• → Bengali: তসবীহ (tosbiho)
• → Dongxiang: tesibihha
• → Uyghur: تەسۋى (teswi)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तसबीह (tasbīh)

  Urdu: تَسْبِیح (tasbīh)

• → Kazakh: тәсбих (täsbix)
• → Kyrgyz: теспе (tespe)
• → Salar: tesbiha
• → Uzbek: tasbeh