استاج

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic استاج.

Noun

استاج • (istac)

1. bobbin, a spool or cylinder around which wire or thread is coiled

   Synonyms: ماسوره (masura), مقره (makara)

Descendants

• Turkish: istac

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “istac”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2225
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استاج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 87