تسبیح بوجكی

Ottoman Turkish

تسبیح بوجكی

Etymology

From تسبیح (tesbih, “misbaha, set of prayer beads”) + بوجك (böcek, “bug”).

Noun

تسبیح بوجكی • (tesbih böceği)

1. woodlouse, any of various terrestrial crustaceans of the suborder Oniscidea

Descendants

• Turkish: tespih böceği

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tespih böceği”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4769
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1175
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تسبیح بوجكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 545