Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *sạp- (to thread a needle, needle).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sapɣun), [script needed] (sıpɣun, short spear), etc.

Noun edit

زبقین (zıbkın)

  1. spear
  2. harpoon

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: zıpkın

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sạp-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill