See also: گیشه and كيسة

Persian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian *kysk' (/⁠kīsak, kīsag⁠/), ultimately from Akkadian 𒋢𒃻𒉌𒌓 (kīsu, leather bag for weights and silver; silver capital; treasury), from which via Aramaic כִּיסָא (kīsā, sack; purse) Arabic كِيس (kīs, sack; purse). Other direct descendants of Middle Iranian include Old Armenian քսակ (kʻsak) and Baluchi کیسگ (kīsag, pocket).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? kīsa
Dari reading? kīsa
Iranian reading? kise
Tajik reading? kisa

Noun edit

کیسه (kise) (plural کیسه‌ها (kise-hâ))

  1. sack
  2. bag
  3. pouch
  4. pocket
  5. sac

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Azerbaijani: kisə
  • Bashkir: кеҫә (keśə)
  • Chagatai: کیسه
  • Georgian: ქისა (kisa) (see there for further descendants)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كیسه (kise, kese) (see there for further descendants)
  • Tatar: кесә (kesä)
  • Turkmen: kise (pocket)
  • undefined Turkic:

References edit

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “ḱésă”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 145