فشقی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• فشكی (fışkı)

Etymology

From Greek φουσκί (fouskí), from Byzantine Greek φυσκίον (phuskíon) (whence also Pontic Greek φουσ̌κίν (fouškín), φουσ̌κί (fouškí)), a diminutive of Ancient Greek φύσκη (phúskē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɯʃkɯ/

Noun

فشقی • (fışkı)

1. dung, especially horse-dung, manure, fertilizer

   Synonyms: گوبره (göbre, gübre), تزك (tezek), ترس (ters)

2. dried horse-dung used as bedding for horses

Derived terms

• فشقیجی (fışkıcı, “collector of dung”)
• فشقیلاتمق (fışkılatmak, “to be manured with dung”)
• فشقیلامق (fışkılamak, “to manure with dung”)
• فشقیلق (fışkılık, “dunghill”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: fışkı, fışgı
• → Armenian: ֆըշխի (fəšxi)

Further reading

• Georgakás, D. I. (1938) “Ετυμολογικά”, in Byzantinisch-neugriechische Jahrbücher‎^[1] (in Greek), volume 14, Athens, § 12, page 74 of 60–83
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فشقی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 900
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fimus”, 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 579
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فشكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3524
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 58
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فشقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1386
• Symeonidis, Charalambos (1973) “Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen”, in Balkan Studies‎^[6] (in German), volume 14, § 232, page 194
• Tietze, Andreas (2009) “fışkı II”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume II, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 58b
• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “فشقی”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 667