تسبیح بوجكی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From تسبیح (tesbih, “misbaha, set of prayer beads”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug”).
Noun[edit]
- woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: tespih böceği
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tespih böceği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4769
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 367
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 1175
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 545