سپت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سپد (seped)

Etymology

From Persian سبد (sabad, “basket”).

Noun

سپت • (sepet)

1. basket, especially one made with wicker

   Synonym: زنبیل (zembil)

2. any article of wicker or the like

Derived terms

• بالق سپتی (balık sepeti, “creel”)
• سپتجك (sepetcik, “small basket”)
• سپتجی (sepetci, “maker of baskets”)
• سپتلك (sepetlik, “quality of a basket”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sepet
• → Albanian: sepete
• → Armenian: սեփետ (sepʻet)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sepet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4146
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سپت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 664
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corbis”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 287
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سپت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 2537–2538
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sepet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سپت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1037