چاقماق طاشی

Ottoman Turkish

چاقماق طاشی

Etymology

From چاقماق (çakmak, “firestricker, firesteel”) + طاش (taş, “stone”).

Noun

چاقماق طاشی • (çakmak taşı)

1. flint, a hard, fine-grained quartz that generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel
2. gunflint, the piece of flint or other natural stone that is used in a flintlock weapon to generate a spark

Descendants

• Turkish: çakmak taşı

Further reading

• 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