چاقماق طاشی
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From چاقماق (çakmak, “firestricker, firesteel”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).
Noun[edit]
- flint, a hard, fine-grained quartz that generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel
- gunflint, the piece of flint or other natural stone that is used in a flintlock weapon to generate a spark
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: çakmak taşı
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çakmak taşı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 862
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاقماق طاشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 461
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چاقماق طاشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 706