قاشیق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قاشق (kaşık)

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قاشق (qašuq, qašıq), from Proto-Turkic *kaĺuk (“spoon”), synchronically diminutive of قاش (kaş, “eyebrow; collet of a finger-ring; wooden bowl, small dish”).

Noun

قاشیق • (kaşık)

1. spoon

Descendants

• Turkish: kaşık
• → Libyan Arabic: كاشيك (kāšīk)
• → Romanian: cașică (rare)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀шика

  Latin script: kàšika