زبقین

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

صاپقین (sapqın), سپقین (sıpkın)

Etymology

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

زبقین • (zıbkın)

Descendants

Turkish: zıpkın

References

^ 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

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “زبقین”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاپقین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1150

[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

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