میخ

See also: مىخ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian میخ (mix, “nail”).

Noun

میخ • (mıh)

1. nail, a spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials

   Synonyms: چیوی (çivi), مسمار (mismar)

2. coin die, any of the metal stamps used to strike impressions of designs onto coins

Derived terms

• میخ كسمك (mıh kesmek, “to make nails”)
• میخ چاقمق (mıh çakmak, “to drive in a nail”)
• میخلاتمق (mıhlatmak, “to make or let be nailed”)
• میخلامق (mıhlamak, “to nail”)
• میخلانمق (mıhlanmak, “to be nailed”)
• میخلو (mıhlı, “furnished with nails”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: mıh
• → Armenian: մըխ (məx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mıh2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3195
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “میخ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 472a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میخ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1255
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clavus”, 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 190
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میخ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 5067-5068
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mıh”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میخ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2053

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (myh /⁠mēx⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎹𐎢𐎧 (MYUX /⁠mayūxa⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mayū́kʰas (“peg, nail”), ultimately a borrowing from the the BMAC substrate. Cognate with Sanskrit मयूख (mayūkha, “peg”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [meːx]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meːx]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [meːx]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [meːx]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [meːx]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [miːx]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [meχ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mēx
Dari reading?	mēx
Iranian reading?	mix
Tajik reading?	mex

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Noun

Dari	میخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мех

میخ • (mix, mêx) (plural میخ‌ها (mix-hâ, mêx-hâ))

1. nail

Related terms

• میخک (mixak)
• میخی (mixi)
• میخ زدن (mix zadan)

Descendants

• → Bashkir: мыҡ (mıq)
• → Azerbaijani: mıx
• → Armenian: մեխ (mex)
• → Crimean Tatar: mıh
• → Hindi: मेख़ (mex)
• → Ottoman Turkish: میخ (mıh)
  • Turkish: mıh
  • → Armenian: մըխ (məx)
• → Uyghur: مىخ (mix)
• → Urdu: میخ (mex)

Ushojo

Etymology

From Persian میخ (mex).

Noun

میخ (mex)

1. nail